{"id":1666568,"date":"2026-02-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1666568"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:00:00","slug":"why-might-ukraine-its-western-patrons-try-to-blow-up-russias-black-sea-pipelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/why-might-ukraine-its-western-patrons-try-to-blow-up-russias-black-sea-pipelines\/1666568\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Might Ukraine & Its Western Patrons Try To Blow Up Russia’s Black Sea Pipelines?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Might Ukraine & Its Western Patrons Try To Blow Up Russia’s Black Sea Pipelines?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The purpose is to derail the peace talks by provoking Russia into either preemptively escalating against Ukraine as a deterrent or authorizing an overmatched retaliatory escalation right after that could in any case be spun by the Europeans to manipulate Trump against Putin.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Putin\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0fourth anniversary<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0special<\/a>\u00a0operation<\/a>\u00a0that Ukraine and its Western patrons are plotting \u201ca possible explosion targeting our gas pipeline systems<\/strong> \u2013 TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines \u2013 along the floor of the Black Sea. They simply cannot back down. They do not know what else they can do to undermine this peaceful process aimed at settlement through diplomatic means.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time that Russia warned about such a plot, with prior ones analyzed\u00a0here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>, and\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s most important about this latest warning is that it coincided with the Foreign Intelligence Service warning on the same day about an Anglo-Franco plot to transfer nuclear technology and even bombs to Ukraine. That was analyzed\u00a0here<\/a>, and just like with Putin\u2019s warning about the latest plots against Russia\u2019s pipelines to Turkiye, the purpose is to derail the\u00a0peace talks<\/a>\u00a0by provoking Russia into either preemptively escalating against Ukraine as a deterrent or authorizing an overmatched retaliatory escalation right after.<\/p>\n

In either scenario, the aforesaid talks\u2019 US mediator could then be manipulated by the Europeans, who\u2019ve been\u00a0trying to subvert<\/a>\u00a0Trump\u2019s peace efforts this entire time, into misperceiving such moves as \u201cunprovoked aggression on false pretexts\u201d, thus possibly torpedoing their negotiations<\/strong>. In response, Trump might then also be manipulated into authorizing his country\u2019s own overmatched \u201cretaliatory\u201d escalation if the Europeans claim that Putin \u201chumiliated\u201d him, which could risk spiraling out of control.<\/p>\n

The Europeans and Ukrainians\u2019 shared goals are to perpetuate the conflict, drag the US back into its Biden-era level of involvement, and then provoke a Cuban-like brinksmanship crisis between Russia and the US that they believe would ultimately result in significant concessions from the former. To that end, they\u2019re plotting to provoke the\u00a0usually restrained Putin<\/a>\u00a0into preemptive escalations or overmatched retaliatory ones, absent which he\u2019ll be forced to accept a nuclear Ukraine and more blown-up pipelines.<\/p>\n

The only realistic way for Russia to avoid this zero-sum dilemma is publicly warning the world about these provocations in the hope that Trump will hear about them from the media even if the\u00a0provably untrustworthy CIA<\/a>\u00a0doesn\u2019t brief him about what Putin and his spies just said. <\/strong><\/p>\n

They\u2019d then expect him to either do his utmost to avert these planned provocations or not fall into the trap of being manipulated by the Europeans if Russia preemptively escalates or authorizes an overmatched retaliatory escalation.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s main motive is to preserve the US-mediated peace talks with Ukraine, therefore preventing the dangerous scenario of US escalations that could spiral out of control, while its secondary one is to show Trump how the Brits, French, and Ukrainians are working behind his back to subvert his peace efforts. <\/strong><\/p>\n

This speaks to Putin\u2019s sincere desire to peace, albeit not at any cost, ergo why his team continues negotiating hard and won\u2019t accept the far-reaching concessions being demanded of it by Ukraine.<\/p>\n

All in all, nobody knows whether Ukraine and its Western patrons will still try to go through with these two provocations after Russia just exposed them, but at least Trump can\u2019t credibly claim to be ignorant of these plots in the event that Russia either preemptively escalates or escalates afterwards.<\/p>\n

As of now, Russia doesn\u2019t want any escalation either from its adversaries or that which their provocations might soon force it into, but it\u2019s signaling that some escalation is possible if Trump doesn\u2019t thwart these plots.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 02\/26\/2026 – 02:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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