The gas was burning a fewer twelve meters high, and you could see it precisely from the satellites. On 28 March 2025 (Friday) at 12.20 Suja measuring station (course circuit, Russian territory, just off the border with Ukraine), was completely destroyed by American HIMARS missiles.
The station until the end of the year, for 3 years of war, worked normally, even despite being taken over in August by Ukrainian troops. Only after the Russians took the village back, it was razed to the ground. And despite the formally announced suspension of attacks on energy facilities. Russia protested, Washington kept quiet.
Six months ago I wrote in Polish thought that the only “point of gas reception between Russia and Ukraine, which stood and operated, is Suja, a city which is in the fire of fighting.” And I expressed my hunch: “One large bullet and it's over. If unknown perpetrators could blow up Nord Stream... can't specified a pump station?” And indeed it did. And it is not any unknown perpetrator, as at the bottom of the Baltic (Lucky Man: How was Nord Stream blown up? | Think Poland), but the Ukrainian army.
Another component of transport infrastructure has been removed, allowing Russian gas to be exported to Europe. And they're inactive being destroyed, like the Turk Stream missile-attacked pipeline, inactive supplying Turkey and Europe with gas. The Americans don't react, Brussels closes its eyes. Both of these players are at hand destroying the pipeline network connecting the Old Continent to the large Earth. This is not an attack of any obscure force on Donald Trump and his peaceful mission, as the media speculated. This is another circular of strategical competition between America and Russia for energy revenues in Europe, which has been going on for decades.
The attack on Suja symbolically ends the function of Ukraine as a transit country. It gained this position erstwhile russian gas began to be exported to Western Europe in russian times – in 1968 it sailed for the first time to Austria. This event was besides accompanied by geopolitical shocks in our region – a fewer months later the USSR intervened militarily in Czechoslovakia, ending Prague Spring. However, 5 years later, West Germany besides began importing gas from the east. Contrary to the protests from Washington, Europe decided to store from behind the Iron Curtain. Gas was essential for the increasing manufacture and for protecting the environment from pollution.
As you utilized to say: pipelines connect like marriage. So the Russians built pipelines to Europe to establish relationships, making money. The hostile parties (as well as today) then agreed on cooperation in the key sphere of energy. due to the fact that the bonds built by trade reduce tension between countries. As in the proverb, "agreement builds, discord ruins."
So for a reason the Grand Manipulator breaks them, wanting to push Europe and Poland into a war with a neighbour from the east. Ronald Reagan already felt that "the Europe-Soviet relation is not serving the North Atlantic Alliance." He considered Europe's "energy dependence" on Russian gas supply as a reason for weakening NATO. In 1981 he attempted to block the construction of a immense gas pipeline from Siberia to Germany, connecting the USSR with Western Europe. Even then, the CIA predicted that "it will limit the Europeans' desire to support future US economical sanctions against the USSR". It didn't work out then, despite the sharp embargo on European companies. Now, in the next round, it was decided to yet cut the energy bonds, all the time talking about Russia's threat of "spinning the gas cock" (today we already know it's a "catch the thief" scam).
The Western conflict with Russia does not end in Ukraine. Today's result of the war seems to be a tie with a mention to Russia. However, in energy competition, the Americans have importantly cut Europe's independence. They cut her off from their competitor, delivering inexpensive oil and gas. But the rivalry between the 2 suppliers of natural gas and oil in Europe has not ended. Russia must be permanently blocked from access to the European market. due to the fact that as the Russians say, 2 bears are besides tight in 1 lair.
And this is what the fresh visit of the U.S. Secretary for Energy in Poland was devoted to, which enthusiastically accepted this task.
Andrzej Szczęsniak
Think Poland, No. 19-20 (11-18.05.201025)
