{"id":219699,"date":"2022-09-19T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=219699"},"modified":"2022-09-14T04:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T03:17:01","slug":"explosive-situation-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/09\/explosive-situation-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosive Situation in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

12 Sep 2022 – Sanctions on Russia are preventing Gazprom from operating North Stream 1, the only one bringing Russian gas to Germany after the forced closure of its sister pipeline, North Stream 2. The Kremlin reports that \u201cSanctions imposed by the EU, UK, US and Canada have disrupted the technical maintenance system of turbine components that ensured pumping.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The U.S.-EU strategy is clear: to prevent Europe from receiving Russian gas at low prices due to the long-term agreements previously made with Russia, forcing European consumers to buy it on the spot market at extremely higher prices set according to speculative and political mechanisms by the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, which is now part of a large U.S. holding company.<\/p>\n

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The only pipeline that regularly transports Russian gas to Europe is the TurkStream<\/strong>, via the Black Sea and the Balkans. Hungary, which opposes EU sanctions (despite being part of the EU and NATO), has signed a long-term agreement with Gazprom to receive 80 percent of the gas it needs from Russia through this pipeline.<\/p>\n

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However, there are growing tensions in the Balkans, especially against Serbia through which TurkStream passes, caused by NATO\u2019s long hands, which could lead to the blocking of this last pipeline from Russia as well.<\/p>\n

This situation is part of an increasingly explosive political-military scenario. The new British premier Liz Truss declares herself \u201cready to use nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

A further danger is caused by the fact that Ukrainian forces \u2013 armed, trained and de facto commanded by NATO \u2013 are firing guns supplied to them by NATO and the EU on the Zaparozhye nuclear power plant currently under Russian control, exposing Italy and Europe to the very serious risk of a new Chernobyl.<\/p>\n

The International Atomic Energy Agency warns: \u201cWith the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant we are playing with fire and something very, very catastrophic could happen\u201d .<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Manlio Dinucci is a research associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, a geographer, and geopolitical scientist. In the 1980s, he directed the magazine <\/em>Lotta per la Pace (born from “Appeal against the installation of nuclear missiles in Italy”) and was Executive Director for Italy of the <\/em>International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. <\/strong><\/em>His latest books are <\/em>L\u2019arte della guerra\/Annali della strategia USA\/NATO 1990-2016, Zambon 2016; and <\/em>Guerra Nucleare Il Giorno Prima, Zambon Editore; 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original – globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

12 Sep 2022 – Sanctions imposed by the EU, UK, US and Canada on Russia are preventing Gazprom from operating North Stream 1. The U.S.-EU strategy is clear: to prevent Europe from receiving Russian gas at low prices and force European consumers to buy it on the spot market at extremely higher prices set by the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, which is now part of a large U.S. holding company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":112211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}