As we all know, since the escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, due to the continuous escalation of sanctions on Russia by EU , this move not only led to further deterioration of Russia-EU relations, but also affected by the backlash of sanctions, many European countries have recently fallen into a serious energy crisis. Especially Germany, which is extremely dependent on Russian energy, before the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Germany could not only continuously obtain natural gas from Russia, but also serve as the largest transit station for Russia to transport gas to Europe, Germany could also make a big profit by reselling natural gas.
However, after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Germany not only lost a large source of income, but also obtained less and less natural gas from Russia. Unfortunately, at the end of last month, two important pipelines that Russia transported natural gas to Europe leaked, and an underwater explosion occurred near the leakage point. Many European countries believe that someone deliberately did the leak in the "North Stream" pipeline. After this, Germany recently received another bad news. According to Global Network , on October 8 local time, a large-scale failure occurred in the railway in northern Germany. Due to the intentional cutting of two cables, the German Railway was suspended for nearly three hours.
At present, the German Ministry of Transport has determined that the two cables were deliberately cut off, and Russia, whose relations with the EU deteriorated due to special military operations, has become the target of suspicion. However, German police said that although the political motive for the destruction was not ruled out, there was no indication that any foreign forces or terrorists were involved. First, the two pipelines of the "North Stream" that have a relationship with Germany were damaged, followed by the German cable being cut off. No matter how you look at these two sabotage operations, they seemed to be premeditated attacks against Germany. During the Merkel government period, Germany can be said to be one of Russia's best friends among Western countries.
Because during Merkel's administration, Europe insisted on independent foreign policy and Merkel insisted on developing friendly relations with Russia, and it was rare for Russia and Europe to usher in a "honeymoon period". It is precisely because of this that Russia agreed to build an additional "North Stream-2" pipeline to Germany through the "North Stream" 1 pipeline . Before the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia's annual gas transmission to Europe through the Nord Stream No. 1 pipeline could reach about 150 billion cubic meters, accounting for about 40% of the total natural gas imports in Europe.
And after the "North Stream-2" pipeline project is fully operational, Russia can transport 55 billion cubic meters of pipeline natural gas to Europe every year. It can be said that without the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, once Germany opens the two pipelines of "North Stream", Germany can not only obtain a large amount of foreign exchange income through "North Stream", but also further narrows the relationship with Russia, and the benefits behind this are huge.
But all this was destroyed by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The cold winter is approaching. Now Germany is not only in a variety of crises, but also, Germany's retreat has been blocked. In other words, the United States, Britain and other countries provoking this Russian-Ukrainian conflict seems to be targeting Russia, but in fact it is more like a major conspiracy against Europe, especially Germany. Previously, a Spanish magazine website published an article titled "The United States declares war on Germany and the European Union" pointed out that the "North Stream" second line aims to avoid Germany's dependence on the Polish and Ukrainian natural gas pipelines. If the second line of the Nord Stream is blocked, Germany will succumb to the geostrategic interests of the United States. From this point of view, the essence of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is a premeditated activity that economically defeated Germany and the EU. Therefore, the article concluded that in fact, the United States regarded European allies and Russia as enemies. Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, it is not difficult to see that the United States has always been the biggest beneficiary behind this conflict. Whether it is encouraging Europe to impose sanctions on Russia or providing weapons assistance to Ukraine, the United States has never suffered any major losses.
