A-Ha-Ha, LOL)))

 And what did happen that precipitated this comedy?  

The CIA warned Ukraine not to destroy Nord Stream months before an attack on the gas pipelines, after receiving a tip from Dutch military intelligence, according to media reports. The Netherlands’ military intelligence agency, MIVD, received information about an “imminent attack” on Nord Stream from an unnamed source in Ukraine in June, three months before a series of underwater explosions hit the pipes last September, a joint investigation by Dutch and German news outlets published Tuesday shows. According to the plan received by MIVD, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valery Zaluzhny, was in charge of the operation against Nord Stream, which involved a small team of divers traveling on a sailing boat and was supposed to take place mid-June 2022.

Who buys this load of BS? Zaluzhny? Really? The guy who by all means now is either dead or completely incapacitated and who can serve as a scapegoat because of it. In the same time it is a peculiar development because--and I stress it--blowing up NS2 is a war crime and somebody did authorize and carried out this terrorist act. Guess from three times who. 

In related news, Vladimir Putin met in Kremlin the so called "voenkors" and totally humiliated them. His exchange with Sladkov was epic and, in fact, Sladkov was effectively accused of spreading Ukie propaganda. I am not going to explain all subtleties of Russian language here, but for anyone who is interested the transcript is available and the summary is here (in Russian). But now, one has to ask the question (wink, wink, wink, wink))) why Macron wants to do this:

French President Emmanuel Macron has asked South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for an invitation to the upcoming BRICS summit in Pretoria, French newspaper L’Opinion reported on Monday. Macron’s recent attempts to win over his African counterparts have fallen flat. He raised the possibility of attending the summit during a phone call with Ramaphosa earlier this month, L’Opinion stated, citing sources in the Elysee palace. According to one “well-informed” source, Ramaphosa was non-committal. “Presence at this summit was mentioned during the conversation between the two leaders, but Pretoria gave no indication of whether or not to extend this meeting to other international leaders,” the source said.

If Macron were to attend the summit, he would be the first leader of a G7 nation to do so. BRICS leaders and Macron apparently share a desire to overhaul the global financial and geopolitical order, with Macron hosting a conference in Paris next week aimed at overhauling the financial system to better benefit the developing world. Ramaphosa is due to attend the conference, and a cordial meeting between him and Macron could set the stage for the French president to make history in Pretoria.

Nice try, of course, but France is the US lapdog and economically insignificant with some exception for aerospace and a few other things and is dwarfed economically by Russia, India, let alone China. France's attempts to maintain presence in Africa are also bound to fail, because France is incapable to provide economic and military assistance Russia and China can. Not even close. Hey, French made their choice and France now will be confined to the Western Europe while it descends into economic depression and chaos. Russia and China can "overhaul the global financial and geopolitical order", France cannot no matter how it tries. Just not enough... scale. Plus Macron still supports criminal regime in Kiev and for all intents and purposes is a party to terrorist activities by Nazis from 404. Russia doesn't talk to Nazis, she annihilates them. Let France guess from three times who is the military pivot in BRICS? I have a hint: it ain't India or China, let alone Brazil and SAR.

Ah, That's What It Is.

So, the blame game starts in earnest. As the herald of regime, New York Times, reports:

Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say. New intelligence reporting amounts to the first significant known lead about who was responsible for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines that carried natural gas from Russia to Europe.

Remarkably, NYT doesn't lie here, which is an extremely rare event in itself, since NYT is a lying sack of shit. It is absolutely true if one views, justifiably, the US and NATO as a "pro-Ukrainian group", who they certainly are. But, oh, the imperatives of a bi-polar US internal politics and massive geopolitical realignment happening this very moment, especially in the country 404, dictate the childish behavior of the American "elites", who suddenly feel the heat. 

At least they admit:

Some initial U.S. and European speculation centered on possible Russian culpability, especially given its prowess in undersea operations, though it is unclear what motivation the Kremlin would have in sabotaging the pipelines given that they have been an important source of revenue and a means for Moscow to exert influence over Europe. One estimate put the cost of repairing the pipelines starting at about $500 million. U.S. officials say they have not found any evidence of involvement by the Russian government in the attack.

Yes, sure, why would Russians kill the hen laying the golden eggs, which they nurtured for many decades. Makes total sense to "initially speculate" that these were the owners of this hen, Russians that is, who decided to kill it. But then, of course, NYT goes back to its normal business of making up a bullshit and lying. 

U.S. officials who have been briefed on the intelligence are divided about how much weight to put on the new information. All of them spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss classified intelligence and matters of sensitive diplomacy. U.S. officials said the new intelligence reporting has increased their optimism that American spy agencies and their partners in Europe can find more information, which could allow them to reach a firm conclusion about the perpetrators. It is unclear how long that process will take. American officials recently discussed the intelligence with their European counterparts, who have taken the lead in investigating the attack.

I have news for lowlifes in NYT--"U.S. officials" know damn well who, when and how blew the NS2 up. Let them take this in, while they regroup trying to whitewash what amounts to the act of state terrorism and only adds to the war crimes of Obama and Biden regimes they committed in what used to be Ukraine. They surely expected only a moderate violence and the fast collapse of Russia. Boy, did their plan turn to shit and now whole world is witnessing the annihilation of the US stooges in numbers not seen since WW I and Russians are doing just fine both economically and militarily. But the corpses are piling--Shoigu reported today that VSU KIAs for February alone exceeded 11,000 (in Russian)--and we all know that Russian MOD is extremely conservative in its numbers. And the meat-grinder for VSU in Bakhmut and elsewhere along 1,000 kilometer long front continues unabated. Somebody will have to answer for all that. And they will. 

I am on record--it is too late to whitewash the crime against humanity committed by Biden's (and Obama's) regimes. But they are desperate, because they sensed the danger. The danger of losing, and they are losing big time. Asia Times comes up with this headline today:

Ukraine is going to lose. The window of opportunity for a settlement has closed.  

There is one problem with this headline though--it is not Ukraine, who will cease to exist as a country, and who already lost, it is the combined West who already sustained a catastrophic defeat both militarily and economically and there will be consequences. In fact, we begin to observe them as I type this. No amount of pathos-ridden BS is going to change the reality on the ground. I warned about it, nobody listened. It is too late now.