The picture shows the leakage of the Nord Stream pipeline
The bombing of Russia's "Nord Stream" natural gas submarine pipeline to Europe has been followed up by news. On January 12, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova said at a press conference that Denmark and Sweden refused to let Russia participate in the investigation of the Nord Stream gas leak because if Russia participates in the investigation, the culprit behind the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipeline will surface, and the final result may make some people feel embarrassed and embarrassed.
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What Zakharova meant was that Sweden and Denmark did not let Russia participate in the investigation of the Nord Stream incident together, nor did they share the results of the Nord Stream investigation with Russia, they were deliberately hiding the truth. We know that the serious leak of the Nord Stream pipeline is widely believed to be sabotage, so Russia has been trying to form a joint investigation team with Sweden and Denmark, but the two countries did not agree, and the matter was subsequently closed.
As Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova said, the West does not want the results of the investigation to be made public, because it will embarrass some people, who exactly this "some" refers to, I think everyone is self-explanatory, Russia just does not want to break this layer of window paper.
Just as Russia was refusing to unite with the West to investigate the Nord Stream 2 explosion, another explosion occurred in a gas pipeline between Latvia and Lithuania.
The picture shows the fire caused by the explosion
On January 13, local time, an explosion occurred in the natural gas pipeline from Lithuania to Latvia. According to US media reports, after the explosion, rescuers rushed to the accident site to extinguish the fire as soon as possible, but fortunately there were no casualties.
Due to the ongoing tensions between the Baltic states and Russia, Lithuania stopped importing pipeline gas from Russia last year and can now only rely on LNG terminals to import gas. And the gas pipeline where the explosion occurred happened to be the pipeline from Klaipeda, the only large seaport in Lithuania, to Latvia.
Lithuanian gas operators said in a statement that there are two gas pipelines to Latvia, only one is affected, the other is not, and the repair work will be completed within hours, and the gas operator also stressed that there is no evidence that someone is causing sabotage.
The picture shows the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline
In fact, after the explosion of the "Nord Stream" natural gas pipeline, there have been many explosion accidents in the natural gas pipeline. On November 19 last year, a gas pipeline exploded in the Leningrad region of Russia, causing a fire.
On December 20 last year, a gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe in Russia also exploded, killing three people.
If you count this time, after the explosion of the "Nord Stream" gas pipeline, at least 3 more explosion accidents occurred. Don't speculate about these 3 explosions, whether someone deliberately did it, let's observe a phenomenon maybe you have the answer, that is, after each gas pipeline explosion, the price of natural gas futures in Europe soared, while the United States sold LNG to Europe at a higher price and made a lot of money.
Before the Nord Stream pipeline was bombed, both Russian gas sent to Europe and liquefied natural gas imported by the Baltic States were basically safe. However, after the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline, a series of explosions occurred in natural gas pipelines in different parts of Europe, which further exacerbated Europe's energy crisis.
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Therefore, the biggest "victim" of the gas explosion accident in Lithuania is Europe. Although Lithuania, Germany and other countries have said that they have stopped importing natural gas to Russia, from the gas prices after the recent gas pipeline explosions, as of the 10th of this month, British natural gas futures are still up 8%, Dutch natural gas futures are also up about 7%, and European natural gas prices remain high. This shows a very essential problem, the factor affecting the price of natural gas, is not a country to buy or not to buy, because Russia is still a big natural gas exporter, in the European natural gas market there are still many countries are buying natural gas from Russia, so Russia's natural gas still has a huge influence on the European natural gas market.
Moreover, now Europeans must face the reality that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict will end sooner or later, and once the conflict ends, most European countries will inevitably resume energy cooperation with Russia for their own national interests and without geopolitical interference.
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Therefore, the frequent explosions of natural gas pipelines in Europe are obviously because some people do not want Russia to resume energy cooperation with Europe, and intend to continue to use this method to continue to affect the European natural gas market, and there is no doubt that the United States is the biggest vested interest. For the United States, after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Europe has gradually reduced its dependence on Russian natural gas, but the United States can take the opportunity to fill this gap. And now there are a series of explosions in European gas pipelines, which will further facilitate the sale of liquefied natural gas from the United States to Europe.
Finally, I would like to say that the conflict enters 2023, and the United States wants to continue to reap the benefits of fishermen and continue to weaken the role of Russia's energy chips, which is very unfavorable to Moscow. And Russia now has no other way to break the situation, only to complete the special military operation as soon as possible to achieve military goals, in order to achieve political goals, otherwise it will only become more and more passive.