{"id":63747,"date":"2022-10-09T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63747"},"modified":"2022-10-09T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:00:17","slug":"escobar-nord-stream-2-offers-germany-a-date-with-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63747","title":{"rendered":"Escobar: Nord Stream 2 Offers Germany A Date With Destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Escobar: Nord Stream 2 Offers Germany A Date With Destiny<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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The twists and turns of the Nord Stream 2 (NS2) saga have yielded yet another stunning game-changer…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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It started with Gazprom revealing that the Line B string of NS2 is intact; not only it escaped Pipeline Terror but may \u201cpotentially\u201d be used to pump gas to Germany.<\/p>\n

That confirms once again that NS2 is an engineering marvel. In fact the whole system: the pipes are so strong they were not broken, but merely punctured.<\/p>\n

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak followed up, with a caveat: restoration of the whole system, including NS, is possible, and \u201crequires time and appropriate funds\u201d. But first, in Russia\u2019s order of priorities, the perpetrators must be conclusively identified.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sources in Moscow confirmed Gazprom\u2019s assessment of NS2. Even Bloomberg had to report it.<\/p>\n

Subsequently in Vienna, attending the Opec+ meeting, Novak remarked the Russian Federation is \u201cready to supply gas through the second line of Nord Stream 2. This is possible if necessary\u201d.<\/p>\n

So we know it\u2019s possible. \u201cNecessary\u201d will depend on a political decision by Germany.<\/p>\n

Novak also sharply noted that neither Russia nor the Nord Stream operators are allowed to investigate Pipeline Terror. Russia insists that without its participation the investigation is flawed.<\/p>\n

Whatever the modus operandi of Pipeline Terror, incompetence was part of the package. No explosive charges were placed or detonated on Line B of NS2.<\/p>\n

That means, as Novak said, it\u2019s virtually ready for business. Line B is capable of pumping 27.5 billion cubic meters of gas a year, which happens to be half of the total capacity of NS.<\/p>\n

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Escobar: Nord Stream 2 Offers Germany A Date With Destiny The twists and turns of the Nord Stream 2 (NS2) saga have yielded yet another stunning game-changer… It started with Gazprom revealing that the Line B string of NS2 is intact; not only it escaped Pipeline Terror but may \u201cpotentially\u201d be used to pump gas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[352,359,553,554,33190,4076,694],"class_list":["post-63747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-gazprom","tag-germany","tag-nato","tag-natural-gas","tag-nordstream-pipelines","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63748,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63747\/revisions\/63748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}