Stasi agent works for Americans to launch Gazprom gas pipeline into EU

 

"Increasingly pro-Russian actions of the White House. This time, Trump's team wants to launch Gazprom's damaged undersea gas pipeline. It has hired a former agent of the GDR security service to do so. The EU and Germany have never given permission for Nord Stream 2 to work. So who would this pipeline work for?

 

The British "Financial Times" (FT) has learned about the US work on a plan to launch Nord Stream 2 - a gas pipeline that has never started operating. It has not received permission from Germany - the final recipient, or the European Commission. It does not have a safety certificate, and in the fall of 2022 it was blown up by still unidentified perpetrators.

 

According to FT sources, Trump's team "is aware" of the initiative to launch Nord Stream 2 and sees this project as a strategic asset that can be used in peace talks, FT has established.

 

A communist security agent is working for the Americans

 

Who is working for the Americans to launch the Russian gas pipeline? It is Matthias Warnig, former executive director of the Swiss company Gazprom - the operator of the Nord Stream 2 AG project. This former agent of the infamous Stasi - the GDR security service, is to develop a project to restart the gas pipeline "with the support of American investors", writes the Financial Times (FT), citing sources.

 

According to FT informants, high-ranking members of Donald Trump's administration "know about his initiative and see it as part of efforts to restore relations with Russia". This is also supposed to be a strategic asset in peace talks.

 

"The United States would say: Now you can rely on Russia, because there are reliable Americans involved there,'" explained a former high-ranking American official familiar with some of the attempts to conclude an agreement. According to him, American investors will start receiving money "for free".

 

Recall that in September 2022, one line of Nord Stream 2 and both lines of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, which has been operating since 2011, exploded. The second line of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, whose annual capacity is 27.5 billion cubic meters, is undamaged. Before the sabotage occurred, Gazprom, in defiance of the EU and Germany, who did not give permission for the launch, filled the gas pipeline with gas. This caused the raw material to leak into the sea as a result of the explosion and environmental pollution.

 

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said during her visit to Poland that the Danish authorities take the gas leak from Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 very seriously. These incidents can hardly be called a coincidence. Swedish media report on "strong underwater explosions" recorded by seismographs.

 

Brussels concerned and ready to act

 

The actions of Trump's team may please the Kremlin. The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was the apple of Putin's court's eye. That is why the situation around the inactive Russian pipeline at the bottom of the Baltic Sea is causing concern in Brussels. As the FT has established, EU authorities have learned in recent weeks about the American talks on Nord Stream 2, and European leaders are concerned and have already discussed the situation among themselves. The publication explains that the implementation of Warnig's plan would give the United States unprecedented influence over energy supplies to Europe. Provided that there are willing parties.

 

The plan assumes the lifting of US sanctions, Russia's consent to resume gas supplies, and Germany's consent to transfer gas to all European recipients (the gas receiving station is located in northern Germany).

 

Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the FT that he had no information about the pipeline talks. Gazprom declined to comment. Warnig assured the newspaper that he "did not participate in any discussions with American politicians or business representatives" and added that he complied "with the rules as a person subject to US sanctions."

 

Informal preparations have begun in Brussels to include a point in a potential peace agreement with Moscow on the resumption of EU imports of Russian gas via a pipeline under the Baltic Sea, the Financial Times warns.

 

No one comments, business warns

 

Are they really? In January 2025, Nord Stream 2 AG received a four-month postponement of bankruptcy proceedings. According to court documents, Gazprom stated that the new presidential administration in the US and the February elections in Germany "could have significant implications for the circumstances of the Nord Stream 2 project," which would justify the delay, the FT writes. According to the source, several investors have already expressed interest, and one consortium has even developed a plan for an agreement with Gazprom after the lifting of sanctions.

 

The Americans are aware that Putin's and Trump's consent will not be enough to launch the gas pipeline. High-ranking US officials and businessmen have warned about this with experience working in Russia, who were interviewed for the newspaper. "I can't imagine that the board of any large American corporation would now say, 'Hey, let's go back to the Russian market,' and the Russians know that too - they've seen the fluctuations in American policy," explained the former high-ranking American official. He recalled that the EU has not lifted sanctions, and agreeing to launch the gas pipeline would provoke a strong reaction in Germany, so "we are still a long way from something like that."

 

Americans want to create the EU as a competitor for China in buying Russian gas, to increase gas prices for the Chinese and cut one reason to feel friendship between China and Russia lasting forever.

Cheap Russian gas flowing into the EU would reduce energy prices and inflation in the West, including the USA, allowing president D. Trump to keep the majority in control of power in the USA after elections there in two years.

Germany’s industry would be competitive again and would start to recover lifting up everybody in the EU.