/ world today news/ The dark story about the accident of the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia on the night of October 8 becomes completely detective and… not so dark in connection with the revealed motives of the saboteurs. A new suspect has emerged. It’s not Russia or even China that he officially did. Can’t guess who?
Finns take the general public for fools. Investigating the incident, Finland’s Central Criminal Police (CCP) presented a rusted 6-tonne anchor allegedly found at the site of the pipeline failure (many have been found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea over centuries of shipping), announcing, that it probably belongs to the Hong Kong-flagged Chinese vessel Newnew Polar Bear, which is now in Russian territorial waters.
The prime suspect
“Polar Bear”, launched in 2005, is the main suspect and “object of investigation” because its movements “match the time and place of failure” of the pipeline. The Finns, in whose area the gas pipeline suffered “mechanical damage”, hold as a backup suspect the Russian nuclear container ship “Sevmorput”, which also “passed” close to the scene of the accident. What many other ships have actually done (there is busy shipping in the Gulf of Finland) is completely irrelevant to the investigation.
There is no objective evidence of the involvement of the Chinese “Polar Bear” in the incident. Finnish police admit that when the ship passed the pipeline, it did not stop or slow down. The same thing happened with the “Northern Sea Route”, which traveled from Murmansk to St. Petersburg without stopping or delaying. “Rosatom” categorically ruled out the participation of the container ship in the incident – damage to the gas pipeline laid at a decent depth by “external mechanical force”.
There are currently no complaints against the Russian sailors. Unlike the Chinese, whose ship sails on the international route opened in July 2023 between China and the ports of Arkhangelsk, Kaliningrad and “Grand Port of St. Petersburg” along the Northern Sea Route (NSR). It mainly transports the products of woodworking enterprises from the northwestern regions of Russia, which previously supplied wood to Finnish companies, as well as Chinese goods.
Guilt has not been proven, but there are guilty parties
The Finnish police had at their disposal many timely photos of the “Polar Bear” taken by someone in the port of St. Petersburg. They show that the cargo ship dropped anchor on the side of the quay, although usually, according to the testimony of Finnish sailors, if it is lowered at all during berthing, it is done on the other side. The investigators in Helsinki are “surprised” by this, hinting in a very likely way that something is wrong.
The Finnish accusation is based on very shaky grounds. At this stage, the fact that the Chinese damaged the pipeline is not in doubt among the Finns, and they are trying to determine whether they did it intentionally or through negligence. Depending on what further action will be taken.
Beijing, of course, admits that a Chinese ship flying the Hong Kong flag was in the area of the Balticconnector gas pipeline, but, in its words, did not damage anything. According to Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning:
At the time of the incident, the Chinese vessel was operating normally in the relevant waters and no anomalies were detected.
She emphasized that the PRC is in contact with Finland to “discover the truth as soon as possible and ensure the objectivity, fairness and professionalism of the investigation”.
Well, let’s help the Finnish investigators and the Chinese comrades, and at the same time we ourselves will find out what the hell is going on in the Baltic.
Three obvious things
Firstly, the Polar Bear and the Northern Sea Route are not to blame for what happened. Purely theoretically, they could damage two objects at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. But at the same time, in two different places, three of them were damaged at once! In addition to the Balticconnector, two submarine and, please note, backup cables, including those between Estonia and Sweden, also suffered “mechanical damage”. Tsargrad has already paid attention to this mystique.
Second, this, of course, cannot be a coincidence. Someone systematically worked on this, and at the state level. This is particularly evident from the synchronicity of the incidents.
Third, it is obvious that this is a signal – the disconnection of backup cables, one of which (between Estonia and Finland) has already been restored, does not cause inconvenience to the population of the affected countries, as it does not affect anything. It wasn’t even noticed right away.
What was that?
On the hot tracks, it can be assumed, although Moscow strongly denied its involvement, that in this way Russia could signal the West, which has crossed all “red lines” in Ukraine and beyond, to stop overdoing it, to stop the cynical farce of “investigation into the ‘Nord Stream subversion'” as Russia’s patience is not infinite.
Many in Russia were happy that Moscow, despite Vladimir Putin calling the accusations “foolishness”, had finally taken the path of a “tooth for a tooth, eye for an eye” policy. Because only in this way can some sense be brought to the West, something that “our” well-wishers stubbornly do not want to understand.
However, it is very possible that people were happy early. Now, with the development of this whole detective story, another version comes to the fore, related to China’s trade with Europe, the transit of goods through Russia, on the Northern Sea Route, with which both “suspect” ships are connected.
The attempt to blame a Chinese ship for the gas pipeline rupture in the Gulf of Finland is an interesting signal that may be behind the West’s desire to block Chinese traffic from the ports of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region to the EU and back.
Vavilov is convinced that “this traffic may seriously increase in the near future – both from the Baltic Sea and the Northern Sea Route”. And here’s why:
This may be affected by the operation in Taiwan. Or the redistribution of Indo-Pacific traffic to the northern route due to the war in the Middle East.
So what?
So whose business is this? It appears to be the same Americans (or their British allies) who destroyed Nord Stream. They want to harm continental Europe, they want to make Europeans even more energy dependent.
And, of course, they warn Russia not to retaliate for SP-1 and SP-2 by destroying their underwater infrastructure (a number of bloodthirsty statements were made by the leaders of Western countries and NATO that if it is confirmed that this is Russia’s response, then it will be hard for Moscow to write – the Baltic will be closed for the Russians).
But the main thing in this case is that a hint was sent to the Chinese: if you do not listen, we will not only block the Suez Canal for you, but also make it so that you cannot overcome our blockade through Russia. It’s scary that they let you into the Baltic Sea – crooked “polar bears”. Or did you and the Russians collude and they wanted you to sabotage our logistics in exchange for being able to use the Northern Sea Route? Stay away from them (we’ll strangle you one by one).
If so, it means that the West, having timed its new provocations to coincide with Beijing’s Belt and Road Forum, is raising the bar for confrontation with the Russians and the Chinese even higher. Russia, leading the struggle for its existence, must not “blink”. China also has nowhere to go.
Translation: ES
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