Mystery Solved?

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[Just click here now for the urgent details.]( [LEARN MORE]( Saratoga Springs, New Yorkd October 1, 2022 Editor’s note: Who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline this week? James Howard Kunstler believes he has the answer, and he’s not shy about sharing it. Is he right — or completely off base? You decide for yourself. [James Howard Kunstler] JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER Dear Reader, Let us agree that the place called Ukraine was never any of America’s business. For centuries we ignored it, through all the colorful cavalry charges to and fro of Turks and Tatars, the reign of the dashing Zaporozhian Cossacks, the cruel abuses of Stalin, then Hitler and the dull, gray Khrushchev-to-Yeltsin years. But then, having destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia and sundry other places all on a great hegemonic lark, the professional warmongers of our land and their catamites in Washington made Ukraine their next special project. They engineered the 2014 coup in Kiev that ousted the elected president, Mr. Yanyukovich, to set up a giant grifting parlor and international money-laundromat. The other strategic aim was to prepare Ukraine for NATO membership, which would have made it, in effect, a forward missile base right up against Russia’s border. Because, well, Russia, Russia, Russia! The USA pours $10 billion a month into this venture, including missiles aplenty and other ordnance, in a stupid effort to prolong the conflict and bankrupt our own land. Thus, Mr. Putin has decided to stop pussyfooting around Ukraine and declared an upgrade in Russia’s effort to put a conclusive end to these shenanigans. He set this forth clearly in a sober speech this week, which included a reminder to the geniuses in the White House basement game room that Russia is a nuclear power. That brings us to the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage this week. Who did it? Did Biden Fulfill a Promise? Let me begin by saying I have no concrete proof. But since “Joe Biden” flat-out promised last February to “bring an end” to the Nord Stream pipeline — and let’s assume he meant both NS 1 and 2 — why seek further to unravel a fake mystery? Is our apparitional “president” not a man of his word? Of course, the machinery behind “Joe Biden” so far denies any credit for the consequential act, but who in this land is unaware that the U.S. government’s default setting these days for answering anything is to lie. The purpose of the act was likewise simple, plain and obvious: to foreclose any possibility of Germany negotiating a separate peace with Russia around the financial and economic sanctions imposed by the USA over the Ukraine operation. Don’t you suppose it was clear to any German with half a brain that NATO’s joining of the sanctions was nothing less than a one-way ticket to Palookaville for Euroland? That it would mean goodbye to its advanced manufacturing economy and then goodbye to a comfortable, modern standard of living? [Stunning New Prediction for 2022]( You’re going to want to [see this]( America’s #1 futurist just came out with a stunning new prediction for what could happen in 2022. And surprise, it’s got nothing to do with Trump. Or trade wars. Or the ongoing gyrations on Wall Street. In fact, this could be your one chance to ignore all that upsetting “fake news”… and get back to the business of getting exceedingly rich instead. [It’s all in the forecast you’ll find at this link — click now.]( [LEARN MORE]( Not many weeks ago German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told the world that Germany would support Ukraine (and U.S.-driven NATO policy) “no matter what German voters think.” That was all for show, you understand, to maintain the flimsy pretense that NATO had any actual stake in whatever happens in Ukraine — as the result of the dumpster fire set there by America. At the same time, that very same German foreign ministry was sneaking through back channels to feel out the Russian foreign ministry on ways Germany might get Russian natural gas on the down-low, through third parties — say, Turkey, buying time until the glorious day those Nord Stream pipelines might reopen and the former normality of German economic life would resume? “Joe Biden” slammed the door on that pretty conclusively Monday, blowing up the two pipelines, a premier act of insanity by a U.S. government fueled at every level and in every direction by psychotic strategic thinking. An Act of War Against NATO For starters, consider that the Nord Stream sabotage amounts to the leading member of NATO committing an act of war against the rest of NATO. What else do you call depriving most of Europe of the means to make a living — or merely to stay alive? As it happens, Germany is in no position to answer this casus belli by going to war against the USA. Germany has a Potemkin military — America has made sure of that since 1945, the last time these Teutons of northern forests went crazy against Western Civ. Seems to me that either Chancellor Olaf Scholz acknowledges this deadly affront to Germany and negates further participation in the NATO Ukraine idiocy, OR within a few months he will face violent political uprising from his own people and his government will fall — and not necessarily within the framework of any orderly parliamentary procedure. More like mobs in the streets… chaos… government buildings torched… officials strung up — real insurrection, not the fake kind we hear about endlessly from the American Party of Chaos. How, exactly, do any of the major NATO countries continue to regard the USA as any kind of ally? They won’t and they can’t. Anyway, and despite the recent panicked expansion of NATO, member countries of the adjoining scaffold known as the European Union are peeling off one by one. Europe Has Had Enough of the EU Giorgia Meloni, soon-to-be prime minister of Italy, couldn’t have put it more plainly when her coalition won last week’s election: She and they oppose in the strongest terms all the Woke nonsense that the World Economic Forum has programmed into the EU. She and they are against the cancellation of individual liberties and tyrannical affronts to due process of law; are against the degenerate campaign to undermine family, church and national sovereignty; and are unwilling to act as a dumping ground for any more third-world hordes the EU stupidly induces to come to Europe’s shores. [Crypto millionaire James Altucher just revealed the cryptocurrency he’s piling into now… and it’s NOT Bitcoin…]( [This Simple Chart]( He reveals exactly what it is [on this page]( predicts 8,788% returns. However, events are happening RIGHT NOW in the cryptocurrency space that could swallow up this opportunity forever. If you missed the first crypto boom… do NOT miss this one. This could be your last chance for easy profits. [Click here to find out what James is recommending now](. [LEARN MORE]( Don’t worry, before much longer something similar will happen in France, too. Perhaps the mobs of nationalists in Paris will be inflamed enough to roll out the old “national razor,” to make their seriousness emphatic. Adieu Fifth Republic. The Sixth is on its way to the maternity ward and it will not recognize the EU as its maman. There’s a whole lotta shakin’ going on across Europe. Holland’s farmers were already furious over Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s disgraceful obeisance to der Schwabenklaus’ malevolent program aimed at shutting down Dutch agriculture. Rutte will be gone before spring planting time, 2023. Sweden, like Italy, had repudiated its Woked-up leftist rulers just weeks ago in an orderly national election. Crowds of protesters lit up Prague this week. It’ll still be good marching weather all over Euroland for some weeks ahead. The Return of National Currencies? The euro currency fell below par with the U.S. dollar. Its days are numbered and when, perforce, it must be replaced by the old national currencies — francs, marks, guilders, lira — then submission to the EU will reach a logical end and it’s back to national sovereignty, too. The U.K., America’s wing-man, has become an entirely feckless, sinking operation. The country is functionally bankrupt, the pound is dying and, by resorting again to the old QE bond-buying racket, the Bank of England has just doomed the country to even more ruinous inflation. Liz Truss will be a three-month wonder. Things might get so wild in Old Blighty that Nigel Farage will wind up in 10 Downing Street. As for Russia’s doings in Ukraine, the Donbas oblast elections are a done deal. Mr. Putin has not yet responded to the extreme provocation of the Nord Stream vandalism. I doubt he will make some histrionic tit-for-tat act of retaliation against any critical infrastructure of NATO or America itself. Rather, he will now methodically proceed to wipe up the floor with Mr. Zelenskyy’s army, eliminate whatever American missiles and other ordnance are stockpiled around the place, complete the occupation of the Black Sea coastal territory from Kherson to Odessa and put that troublesome backwater of Western Civ in order. The hallmark of the operation will be a measured and businesslike approach. Russia will just get it done, put out the dumpster fire and refuse to allow the USA to start World War III. Regards, James Howard Kunstler for The Daily Reckoning Editor’s note: In Jim Rickards’ 2011 book Currency Wars, he warned that the U.S. was engaged in a special type of economic war. Jim said that these wars would: Degenerate into sequential bouts of inflation, recession, retaliation and actual violence as the scramble for resources leads to invasion and war. The historical precedents are sobering… Some version of the worst-case scenario is almost inevitable. Now with Putin invading Ukraine, rising tensions with China, inflation, recession, supply chain issues and the potential for greater violence breaking out all over the world… It seems Jim’s worst fears are coming true. [That’s why he recorded this short video message.]( Jim wants to help you prepare for what he fears is coming next. Because if history is any indicator, there could be real trouble ahead. [Click here to view Jim’s urgent video message.]( Thank you for reading The Daily Reckoning! We greatly value your questions and comments. Please send all feedback to [feedback@dailyreckoning.com.](mailto:dr@dailyreckoning.com) [James Howard Kunstler] [James Howard Kunstler]( is perhaps best known for his 2005 book [The Long Emergency]( which predicted the financial meltdown and the implications of the peak oil problem. 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