By Anna Von Reitz
After destroying the Nordstream pipeline in 2022, those who cheered the destruction of their own energy security are freezing in the dark.
There is no easy answer to this. While it is widely assumed that Joe Biden ordered the destruction and it is known that the Swedish submarine service investigated the incident successfully, the results of that investigation have not been made public.
The same loud-mouthed politicians who called Russia a "terrorist state" when it exercised the provisions of its own international treaties, have learned two important lessons: (1) winter doesn't care about politics; (2) America is in no position to replace Russian gas via LNG that costs twice as much, is weather dependent, and limited by access to LNG terminals.
While it was always recognized that Russian gas supplies were the most practical solution to Western European energy needs, those benefiting from cheap Russian gas were both prideful about "retaining" energy independence they never achieved, and at the same time, afraid of the specter of being dependent on Russian resources -- even though Russia acted as a straight-forward business partner and delivered gas as agreed, on time, without using gas supplies as political leverage.
Western Europe would have used gas as leverage against Russia, so they assumed Russia would do the same to them, but Russia is led by men who graduated from the School of Hard Knocks, not the self-centered "theoretical" indoctrination provided by western Universities and Think Tanks.
The traditional respect for keeping business and politics separated was something the western corporate oligarchs failed to understand or appreciate. The simple mechanics of good trade relations -- and human need -- was too complex for these idealogues raised by political parties, isolated from the realities of life.
The same failure of "educational indoctrination" absent common sense is observable throughout Europe and the same sickness has infiltrated much of the political structure of The United States and the former Commonwealth, too.
That's not saying anything about Keir Starmer and the British Labour MPs who are a new brand of "out of touch" entirely. We keep waiting for the British people to set Westminster on fire, or at least torch Number 10 Downing Street; Starmer, the penultimate Charles Brown, still doesn't seem to know why nobody likes or respects him.
Any expectation that the British Government will deal with reality in its own realm, much less do anything about NATO or the need to repair relations with Russia, is like expecting a stage show combination of Oklahoma! and Rocky Horror Picture Show --- to be a hit.
The Russians, unlike the incompetent acting troupe of "Presidents" and "Prime Ministers" of commercial corporations acting as governments for the seventeen still-occupied Western European nations, held the line and kept business separate from politics --- not because it was politically expedient, but because this is a crucial element of all business relationships and key to ultimate economic success.
Putin and his advisors know that in business, reputation and trust and reliability are all-important. So they have carefully performed all obligations required by all contracts with every business partner, regardless of politics. They have done this, often at cost to themselves, for decades.
Why?
To secure new business opportunities, to keep existing customers happy, and to be competent competitors.
Years ago we observed to the Brits that their constant position at the bottom of every dogpile would eventually cost them, that other governments would catch on to their duplicity, war-mongering, racketeering and meddling ---- and then what?
Nobody in their right mind would want to do business with the Roman Curia, the Committee of 300, the WEF, or the Government of Great Britain--- aka, Code Name "Smelly Grandma"--- and, here it is, and it's their own fault.
Recently, all the politically entrained and arrogant Western European Governments headed by commercial corporation oligarchs threw away generations-worth of good reputations in business, and Europe's reputation as a safe haven for business, by not only freezing Russian assets in Europe, but by proposing to steal the profit from those assets and predicate return of these profits on payment of war reparations to Ukraine by Russia.
At most, these reckless idealogues stood to gain $245 Billon -- not even paying attention to the fact that they, themselves, had more than $800 Billion at risk in Russia.
Where we come from, this is called "shitting in your mess kit", and like 'Steer Karmer', it represents an utterly new kind of incompetence strutting across the world stage.
You can stand in a quiet space and watch the computer screens track the "giant sucking sound" as investors flee Western Europe.
Where are they fleeing?
To Russia. To China. To India. To Africa. To South America. To anywhere where the business climate is apolitical and stable, any place that investors can grow good stable supplier and customer relationships without the fear that political motives and short-sighted economic gains will prompt Crazy Charlie moves to curtail market access, impose tariffs or economic sanctions, destroy needed infrastructure, or seize upon assets that belong to someone else.
So here the Worst Offenders are, hat in hand. It's winter. Without cheap Russian gas, their factories are at half-capacity, jobs endangered.... German Chancellor Merz's weak chin faded into the neck of his dress shirt this week....Volkswagen alone is suffering billions -- with a "B" -- in undeserved losses thanks to gross incompetence on the part of Germany, Incorporated.
One is almost forced to suspect that the Witch of Endor died and left her Flying Monkeys in charge. All of this couldn't be going so spectacularly wrong and all at the same time, without careful and cynical preplanning.
Merz still wants to find a way to blame Russia instead of his own intellectual atrophy for this circumstance, but instead, he has to face the large number of German Corporations down on their knees, back to the wind, and plans to open up German coal mines again.
Shoulda-coulda thought of that before blowing up the Nordstream pipelines, dontchya think, fellas? Maybe tempered the rhetoric and allowed peace in the Ukraine a long time before this?
The Russians aren't impressed or moved to move.
The Russians are the only ones who have the equipment and capability to repair the Nordstream pipelines, and they aren't inclined to do so. It's winter. On the Baltic Sea. Why risk Russian ships and equipment and lives to repair gas pipelines that should never have been attacked and broken in the first place?
Why do such a job to save arrogant, ungrateful, and yes, too-stupid-to-live neighbors, who sent aid and armaments to your enemies? Called you a "terrorist state" when you exercised treaty rights guaranteed to you? And probably thought they were doing something great by blowing up the pipelines, too?
Russia has imposed its own reasonable retaliation and seized upon an equal amount of foreign assets belonging to the loudest mouthed members of the EU who cheered the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines and who have been sending billions to Ukraine. Notably, Hungarian assets in Russia are safe, but not German or French assets. Putin was paying attention. No doubt, he was shaking his head the whole time.
To paraphrase what must be going through Vladimir Putin's head:
"Let's get this straight.... you blow up Russian pipeline infrastructure that was built so that we could supply you with cheap gas to heat your homes and factories and provide you with electricity.... you cheer this act of industrial terrorism on international television.... you call Russia a "terrorist state" when we exercise treaty guarantees and protect our own people.... you denounce Russia as an "aggressor" and send billions in aid to Ukraine throughout a long and horrible and bloody war, running your mouths the whole time.... and now, in the middle of the winter, you want Russia to repair its ruined gas pipeline infrastructure.... so Russia can supply you with cheap gas again?"
If we were Vladimir Putin, having to interact with this level of self-centered cluelessness, we wouldn't be shaking our heads. We would be banging them full on against a wall somewhere, asking God why such people are allowed to prosper and live?
Huge corporations that are the political lifeblood of Germany, France, Belgium and other We-Hate-Russia Bandwagoneers, are desperate. They can't stay competitive without Russian gas. They are losing billions in assets because of retaliatory Russian asset seizures. By the end of this winter, their factories may all be shut down as they huddle around coal fires made possible by hastily reopening coal mines that have been closed for forty years.
That's how lacking in basic common sense these politicians -- all these commercial corporation oligarchs supported by political parties-- really are.
Along with Lessons 1 and 2 already noted, let's add Lesson 3 -- it doesn't matter how much money you have, if you can't buy what you need at a price you can afford.
Russia is standing back and saying, okay, well, to begin negotiations on reopening the Nordstream Gas Pipelines... first, admit who ordered their destruction, and second, agree to pay for the damage. Then, perhaps we can agree to do the repairs and resume gas delivery.
Meanwhile, the Russians have unleashed a brilliant international law suit against Euroclear, the European Clearinghouse responsible for allowing the EU to seize Russian assets for political reasons in the first place. Where is the governing law and authority?
There isn't one. Oh....
So what was that, an act of war? Or was the EU engaged in opportunistic war profiteering? Aiding and abetting an enemy of Russia --- an enemy, Ukraine, that was running a criminal empire that threatened the lives of every European, not just the Russians?
Condemning Russia as an "aggressor" when NATO has been encroaching inch-by-inch on Russia ever since Reagan, in violation of agreements promising that they wouldn't do this at all? When NATO affiliates murdered the elected Ukrainian government in 2014 and forced the whole Zelensky Regime on the Ukrainian people?
We think the nature of the "aggression" and the perpetrators of this aggression are well-known and identified: NATO and CIA and Mossad playing Bully Boy from behind the safe and taken-for-granted shield provided by the United States, Inc.
This link is a fan-based put-together of commentary --theoretical but typical of Jeffery D. Sachs-- that runs down the facts like a grocery list: https://youtu.be/g3tJ0N9LtsM?si=wzY1VWfUlOr5VADu
The "US" no longer has unimpeded access to the American population for gun fodder and no longer enjoys unquestioned access to American credit resources, either. Their attempts to invoke the always illegal and non-contractual "Monroe Doctrine" have fallen flat.
This country has a defense services contract that requires defense of our borders (you may judge how well that obligation was respected) and defense of our commercial shipping on the High Seas and Navigable Inland Waterways.
The Monroe Doctrine is something that our Service Vendors did on their own accounts, for their own enrichment, then turned around and charged all their operational costs off onto us, the hapless American Public.
They got the profit, we got the bill, and it was all done without any respect for their contractual limitations; they simply said it, and without the actual States being in Session to object, they got away with this. They pretended that we "acquiesced" and allowed them to act as mercenaries and rampage around the world, indebting us and enriching themselves.
That option has finally come to an end.
Britain has been strong-armed into making some recompense, by giving them most of, if not all, of Western Canada; that may be very nice for the still-British Territorial Government, and welcomed by the Western Canadians, too, after what they have put up with under Trudeau ---- but we note that this does nothing to bring back sanity and restitution to America. It just adds another element of Crazy Charlie to the mix.
There is no need to invade us, if they join us as "Territorial States" and then attack. Given everything else that has gone on worldwide, and all the "Free Trade Zones" already prepared as military forward bases, it's not beyond imagining that Donald Trump might try to create a "who is who" confusion and attack the actual Americans with a center drive straight into and through the American heartland.
Everyone expected China to attack from the Pacific, and then, everyone expected Mexico and the long underbelly of the Southern Border to be the focus for an amphibious attack, but no, look at the whole lack of planning and fortification from the North, the Great Lakes, and the Free Trade Zones that can be used as military airports and bases?
With Territorial States poised on our northern border, claiming to act as new "States" but meaning British Territorial "States" not States of the Union --- we could be looking at the most serious threat to American sovereignty that we have seen yet. And it would come at the hands of our own "federal" government employees.
Please note that Canadians have the worst reputation for committing war crimes -- bar none. Our mild-mannered, Chatty Cathy neighbors to the North with their charming accents and Mounties and yodeling contests might not seem like a dark and dangerous threat, but remember the massacres, the residential schools, and the tradition of "scalping" brought to us by our Canadian neighbors.
There is a dark and desperate side to Canada, one that should make a strong man step back and think twice.
These people have tamed a wild frontier, faced down wolves and grizzly bears, built highways and railroads across vast plains and trackless swamps, survived wildfires that make California wildfires look like campfires, survived plagues, locusts, mosquitoes, flies, spiders, snakes, and snake oil. Canadians are a weird combination of Alaskans and Aussies.
They are wild men, and they are right at our back door. And most of them are still loyal to "the Queen" and now, "the King".
Remember Ticonderoga. Remember Lake Champlain. Add in the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
Strangely, Mr. Trump's proposed addition of all these new "States" which are not States of the Union --- may be the biggest threat America has ever faced.
It was the late Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer who called us in the wee hours of the morning one day and basically warned us that Canada was making plans to invade The United States. He also pointed out that the unused and thought-to-be undeveloped Free Trade Zones dotting the northern tier of States and also dotted throughout Southern Canada, were actually set up as military forward bases and already set up with airfields adjacent to key railroad and highway junctions. "Ready to go."
Just sayin' "Make America Great Again" might refer to a different version of "America" --- one with a British accent and no scruples.
Everyone needs to stay on their toes and make sure that nothing gets turned sideways and upside down; the British Empire is in its death throes and losing control, but that doesn't mean that the Old Evil has lost its fangs, or that it won't thrash around a great deal as it goes down "to dusty death, unwept, unhonored, and unsung."
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
December 27th 2025
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