Berlin, Germany (Weltexpress). Merz not only wants to suppress political challenges in his own party, but also to deny Germans the choice of importing cheap Russian gas via Nord Stream-1 again in the future in order to stop the destruction of German industry.
As Merz does not trust future German governments to continue the current sanctions policy of “ruining Russia” through the suicide of German industry, he wants to put a stop once and for all to future German changes of direction towards reason-based policies with the help of the EU. The ideological goal of the EU/NATO elites to bring Russia to its knees seems to be more important to Chancellor Merz than the economic health of Germany or the living conditions of the German population or the material conditions of people in Europe!
On May 23, the Financial Times reported on a new scandal with and around Chancellor Friedrich Merz under the title: “Merz backs Nord Stream ban to prevent US and Russia restarting gas link”. Accordingly, Merz is actively lobbying the European Commission for the EU to impose sanctions against Nord Stream AG, which is incorporated in Switzerland, so that he will be subject to less domestic political pressure in Germany to reopen the pipeline and purchase Russian gas in future. Because once the EU has imposed sanctions against Nord Stream 1, neither the German government nor the Bundestag can do anything about it.
First, a brief overview of the background. Nord Stream AG is the operating company of Nord Stream 1 and was founded on November 30, 2005 in Zug, Switzerland. The ownership structure of Nord Stream 1 is as follows: Gazprom (Russia): 51 percent of the shares; ENGIE (France): nine percent of the shares; Wintershall Dea AG (Germany): 15.5 percent of the shares, PEG Infrastruktur AG (E.ON, Germany): 15.5 percent of the shares; N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie (Netherlands): nine percent of the shares. Nord Stream 1 is still fully intact and could be put back into operation at any time if Germany gives the green light.
It is Nord Stream 2, which, according to Mearsheimer – probably the world’s most successful and well-known investigative US journalist – was blown up by US special forces on US government orders at the bottom of the Baltic Sea off the Swedish coast in the fall of 2022.
It should be noted that it is the intact Nord Stream 1 pipeline that Chancellor Merz wants to permanently withdraw from service with the help of EU sanctions, thereby denying German industry and private consumers access to cheap, high-quality Russian pipeline gas for the unforeseeable future. At his inauguration a few weeks ago, Chancellor Merz swore to avert disaster from the German people. However, his inauguration was more of a new feudal enthronement, as the new chancellor is even more unrestrained than his predecessor in deciding over the will of the German people, having already lied to them good and proper with all kinds of promises before the election.
But why does he really want the EU to sanction Nord Stream 1? After all, this pipeline is part of Germany’s critical energy infrastructure! And now none other than the Chancellor of Germany is calling on the European Union to impose sanctions against part of its own energy infrastructure, in which German companies are even significantly involved. In addition, Nord Stream 1 is also largely regulated by German law and Merz, as Chancellor, could decide at any time that Germany should not purchase gas via Nord Stream 1.
Furthermore, Merz’s behavior with regard to Nord Stream 1 is diametrically opposed to the narrative cherished and cultivated by the ruling Berlin “elites” for three years that it was the Russians who turned off the gas tap. In fact, this distortion of history seems to have become firmly entrenched in a large part of the German population. But if it were really true that the Russians refused to supply us with gas, why is Merz urging the EU to sanction Nord Stream 1 in order to prevent pipeline gas from Russia from reaching Germany in the future?
Once the EU has imposed sanctions, no one in Germany will be able to make a political decision at national level in future to import cheap, high-energy pipeline gas from Russia again. Neither the Bundestag nor the Federal Government can overrule the democratically unelected EU bureaucrats on foreign trade issues under current EU law. Only the EU itself can lift the sanctions it has imposed. This is because the Bundestag and the Federal Government have ceded their own sovereignty to the EU in matters of foreign trade.
Incidentally, the AfD is the only party in Germany that wants to put an end to this miserable state of affairs and reverse the transfer of sovereignty to the EU. Decisions on fateful issues such as sanctions, which fall under the heading of foreign trade, must be brought back to the German parliament, where they belong.
In this context, the question increasingly arises as to how long the Germans will continue to accept the current situation, in which democratically illegitimate bureaucrats in Brussels, such as Ms. von der Leyen, who has been dogged by all kinds of scandals, decide on their energy security, i.e. on questions of fate for the future of the entire nation. However, the political leaders of all German parties, with the exception of the AfD, are closely networked with the Eurocrats. Detached from the will of the European people and their national parliaments, they are pursuing their own agenda, which no longer has anything to do with the original promise of the EU.
The political elites tell their people that they are selflessly committed to the universally revered and untouchable European Community and they demand that we all do the same. After all, as we all know, the EU stands for peace and prosperity and for all that is good and beautiful in the world, in which the EU elites – according to their own confessions – want to become a leading power on an equal footing with the USA and China.
However, such lofty goals also require sacrifices, which the elites do not make themselves, but impose on their people, especially the lower classes. This is why there is nothing left of the EU promise of peace and prosperity for all EU Europeans. Today, as anyone can easily see, the EU stands for war on the outside and for increased exploitation and poverty on the inside, with the factor of cheap energy from Russia playing an important role. For example, EUROSTAT data recently published in the Berliner Zeitung shows that liquefied natural gas imported from the USA is now twice as expensive for EU countries as Russian gas.
And so we now come back to the question of why the hell Friedrich Merz wants to get the European Union to permanently shut down the remaining intact Nord Stream 1 pipeline? In doing so, Merz is putting himself in stark contrast to the interests of his own people and many other EU countries that have also benefited from Nord Stream 1 in the past.
According to the Financial Times, Merz is doing this because he fears that the Russians and the Americans could decide to put the Nord Stream pipeline back into operation. A US company is already negotiating in Moscow. Such an American-Russian consortium, led by a US company, buys gas from the Russians and then formally delivers it to Germany and other EU countries through Nord Stream 1 as American gas. The “Russia must be ruined” warriors in the EU would then face a dilemma, because if they were to impose sanctions on the new US owner of Nord Stream 1, they would have to reckon with sensitive reactions from Washington.
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