SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: The sabotage of gas plants and energy facilities, spanning from the Baltic Sea to the Persian Gulf and the Caribbean, is not a series of scattered accidents.

https://x.com/Chetuyachinago/status/2050992026255081963

The sabotage of gas plants and energy facilities, spanning from the Baltic Sea to the Persian Gulf and the Caribbean, is not a series of scattered accidents.

They are calculated moves by Washington to weaken sovereign states that resist Western hegemony and to maintain the dollar’s global dominance. 

We do not need to analyze all of these events separately; analyzing a few select events allows us to understand exactly how the empire operates.

By early 2026, German industry was in a state of revolt due to the 'deindustrialization' caused by high U.S. gas prices. 
A majority of Germans supported reopening the surviving line of Nord Stream 2. 
In January 2026, German politicians and industry leaders began quiet, back-channel negotiations to secure 'emergency' energy from alternative, non-U.S. routes to avoid total economic collapse. 

In late March 2026, a sophisticated act of sabotage targeted a pumping station on the Transalpine Pipeline (TAL) in the Italian Alps. 
The TAL is Germany’s primary oil artery from the Mediterranean. 
The 'blasting' of its power supply forced Germany's largest refinery in Karlsruhe to halt operations. 

This was a clear message to Berlin: there is no 'exit' from the U.S. energy umbrella. 
By sabotaging the TAL, the empire ensured that Germany could not use its European infrastructure to bypass the energy scarcity created by U.S. geopolitical goals.

Also, in early March 2026, both South Korea and Japan faced a 90% drop in oil supply due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. 
This pushed them to desperation and they both attempted a "Rebellion of necessity" by turning towards Russian energy under the temporary U.S waiver.

Japan received its first shipment of Russian crude from the Sakhalin-2 project, and South Korea used a U.S. 'waiver' to pivot toward Russian naphtha and oil as well 

Just when these two nations thought they could use the U.S. waiver to stabilize their energy security, sabotage strikes hit Qatar’s Ras Laffan (the world’s largest LNG hub) and key export terminals in the UAE and Kuwait. These strikes specifically targeted the grades of oil and LNG that Japanese and South Korean refineries were built to process. 

Iran has publicly stated that they were not responsible for this particular attack and blamed it on the U.S.

When we study the pattern, we see that the U.S. is forcing Japan and South Korea into a state of permanent emergency. 
By destroying the infrastructure of 'neutral' or 'swing' suppliers like Qatar and the UAE, the empire ensured that Japan (95% dependent on Middle East oil) and South Korea (70% dependent) had no choice but to rely on U.S.-sourced energy which obviously comes with heavy political and financial strings attached.

India, too, was not spared from this imperial wrath. 

India exploited a temporary 30-day U.S. waiver issued during the height of the 2026 Iran War to ramp up Russian oil imports to a staggering 2.1 million barrels per day.

India was not just buying oil; it was becoming a global 'laundromat,' refining cheap Russian crude and selling it back to the West at a premium, thereby shielding its own economy from the very inflation the U.S. was exporting. 

Just when India thought they were going to stabilize their energy needs, a major incident occurred at the HPCL Rajasthan Refinery in Pachpadra. On April 20, 2026, exactly 24 hours before Prime Minister Modi was scheduled to inaugurate it, a massive fire erupted in the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU), the heart of the refinery. 

This was India’s first 'Greenfield' integrated complex, designed specifically to process heavier crudes, like those from Russia and the local Barmer basin, to reduce import dependency. 

This sabotage was a clear message to India’s leadership and their dream of energy independence. The Pentagon clearly intends to keep India dependent on more expensive, U.S.-controlled maritime supply chains.

This series of sabotage events is a clear message to the entire globe that even 'allies' are subject to imperial discipline if their energy partnerships threaten the U.S. goal of isolating global rivals. 

Of course, the U.S. cannot directly invade China or resort to cheap sabotage of their energy facilities, as that would lead to either a nuclear apocalypse or a total collapse of the global economy. What the U.S. can achieve, however, is total control of the maritime chokepoints that supply the energy powering the Chinese economy.

They achieve this in two phases:

First, the U.S. understands that a war with Iran forces Tehran to close the Strait of Hormuz. This puts 55% of China’s crude oil and 30% of its LNG imports at immediate risk. By making Gulf oil scarce and expensive, the U.S. forces Chinese manufacturers (petrochemicals, plastics, and electronics) to pay a 'war premium,' instantly hollowing out their profit margins and making their exports less competitive globally.

Secondly, on the other end is the Strait of Malacca. 80% of China’s oil must pass through this strait. The U.S. has intensified its naval presence here, effectively creating a 'Seafaring Blockade.' The U.S. doesn't need to sink ships; it just needs to increase insurance and 'security' costs to the point where China's industrial growth becomes economically unviable. As I analyzed in my post regarding the U.S. securing a major defense contract with Indonesia, this deal allows U.S. military aircraft to monitor and potentially interdict any tanker trying to bypass the Malacca Strait through the Sunda or Lombok Straits.

Effectively, we can now understand the U.S. strategy: they view China as an 'industrial giant with an energy throat.' By keeping its hand firmly on that throat(the chokepoints)the U.S. ensures that China's economy remains in a state of managed stagnation, unable to achieve the 'High-Quality Development' required to replace the U.S. as the global hegemon. 

This is why the U.S. is maintaining a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, even though they are losing more money from the blockade than Iran. They are hoping to come out victorious in this war and cement themselves as the sole, undisputed superpower.