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Russian gas pipelines raise concerns about sabotage · The Slippery Slope

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  well as buy me a coffee back, / J Fallon, I believe it is.
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  Anyway, let's discuss what's happening in Europe with this
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  gas pipeline explosion. It's a bit of a story all over
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  the news. This headline, here comes from 9
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  news here in Australia, it says, leaks on Russian gas pipelines,
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  raised concerns about As disturbance seen from the sky,
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  this is by the Associated Press here in Australia.
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  So a series of unusual leaks onto natural gas pipelines
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  running from Russia under the Baltic Sea to Germany, have
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  triggered concerns about sabotage overshadowing.
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  The inauguration of a long-awaited pipeline that will
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  bring Norwegian gas, to Poland, to bolster Europe's energy
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  independence from Moscow. Isn't it funny that now they're
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  trying to bolster Europe's energy independence from Moscow
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  and yet, I think I didn't episode on this, you know, it
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  was a few years ago, President Trump warned the Germans of
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  being under the thumb of Vladimir Putin.
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  Basically of being under the control because they were
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  indebted to Moscow because they relied upon them for their
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  natural gas. And here we see a couple of
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  years later, you know, because obviously the Germans didn't
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  listen. I think in the United Nations
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  meeting, when Trump was giving the speech, the germ is actually
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  sat there and openly laughed at him while he was talking.
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  I always wondered what happened with the what happened with
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  those bureaucrats? That would just sitting there
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  laughing. Are they sitting there
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  embarrassed at themselves right now?
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  Probably not. Anyway, continuing on seismic
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  stations in Sweden, Norway and Finland registered to explosions
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  on Monday near the leeks. Bjorn Lon A seismologist with
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  uppsala, University, who is part of Sweden's National seismic
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  Network said, the first explosion was recorded in the
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  early hours southeast of the Danish land of bornholm, the
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  latter and stronger blast that night was Northeast of the
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  island and equivalent to a magnitude 2.3 earthquake.
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  Wow, he goes on to say, we know very well, what, an underwater
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  blast looks like. And so, This case, there's no
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  doubt. This is not an earthquake.
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  Learned said sir, polish prime minister.
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  He called the events in Act of sabotage.
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  While the Danish Prime Minister met a Frederickson.
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  She said, she could not rule it out.
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  After three leaks were detected over the past day on the Nord
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  stream, one and two pipelines, which are filled with gas, but
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  they're not delivering the fuel to Europe.
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  So, by Tuesday afternoon, Fredrickson said her government
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  viewed, the gas leaks off a Danish island in the Baltic Sea
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  as deliberate actions and asked, whether it was an attack on
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  Denmark, frederiksen replied that the leaks happened in
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  international waters, and the answer is the snow on Wednesday.
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  Danish Defence Minister Morton bod Skov will travel to Brussels
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  to meet with NATO Chief, Jens stoltenberg to talk about the
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  gas leaks and Stained of standoff over Russia's war in
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  Ukraine, holded Flows In Nord stream one and prevented them
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  from ever starting in the parallel, Nord stream to.
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  So Frederickson, more Wiki and Polish president and Dres Duda.
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  Symbolically opened a valve of a yellow pipe belonging to the
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  Baltic pipe. A new system that will bring
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  Norway's gas from Denmark and the Baltic Sea to Poland and the
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  era of Russian domination in the gas fears coming to an end.
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  This is what Mara Wiki has declared an era that was marked
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  by blackmail threats and extortion.
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  So no official presented evidence of what caused the Nord
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  stream problems. But in Central Europe, where
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  distrust of Russia runs. Hi.
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  There were fears Moscow sabotage just own infrastructure out of
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  spite or To warn that all pipelines are vulnerable to
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  attack the leaks and merge off the coast of Denmark and Sweden,
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  raising the stakes and where the energy infrastructure in
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  European Waters were being targeted and leading to a small
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  bump in natural gas prices. We can clearly see that this is
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  an act of sabotage. An act that probably means a
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  next step of escalation in the situation that we're dealing
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  with in Ukraine, Maria. A Wiki said Anders book Nielsen
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  a research from the center of maritime operations at the Royal
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  Danish. Defence College said the timing
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  of the leaks was conspicuous given the ceremony for the
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  Baltic pipe. He said, perhaps someone sought
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  to send a signal that something could happen to the Norwegian,
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  gas, the arrow points in the direction of Russia Park,
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  Nielson said, however, the Kremlin the Kremlin calls they
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  calling for an urgent pro, you can just see it.
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  Now let's call for an urgent probe who did this because you
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  know, there's no way that Gremlin knows who did it.
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  I'm betting, they did it themselves.
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  Anyway, the extent of the damage means the Nord stream pipelines
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  are unlikely to be able to carry any gas to Europe this winter,
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  even if there was political will to bring them online and now Our
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  analysts at the Eurasia group said, depending on the scale of
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  the damage. The leaks could even mean a
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  permanent closure of both lines. So, they've also noted that
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  undersea pipelines are designed in a way that they are not
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  accidentally damaged and leaks are rare.
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  However, leaks of this size, are a severe safety and
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  environmental hazard especially should Russia or not.
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  Stop pumping gas, into the system analyst of said, Spock
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  Nielson said of possible sabotage that technically
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  speaking, this is not difficult, it just requires a boat, it
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  requires some divers that know how to handle explosive devices.
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  But I think if we look at who would actually benefit from
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  disturbances more Chaos on the gas market in Europe, I think
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  there's basically only one actor right now that actually benefits
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  from more uncertainty and that is Russia, he said and I think
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  it's Probably it's a little hard, not to be pointing the
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  finger Russia that you think. Anyway, so asked if the leaks
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  may have been caused by sabotage, Kremlin spokesman
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  Dmitry peskov said nor version could be excluded.
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  That's my best Russian. Sorry, now idea to do a Russian
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  accent anyway, he says this is an unprecedented situation, that
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  requires an urgent investigation.
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  We are extremely worried by this news.
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  He said in the Friends call with reporters.
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  So Europe is now struggling for answers.
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  The Nord stream pipelines have been at the center of energy,
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  clash between Europe and Russia. Since the invasion of Ukraine,
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  plunging Russian gas supplies have caused prices, to soar,
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  pressuring governments to help ease the pain of Sky High Energy
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  bills for households and businesses as winter nears.
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  And everyone, like I said, trying to forget what Trump And
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  them about all those years ago. Anyway.
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  So the crisis also has raised fears of rationing and
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  recession. European countries have
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  struggled to find other supplies of gas which he tones generates
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  electricity and runs factories Poland.
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  For example, was on track to free itself, a Russian gas after
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  working for years to secure other sources, including
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  liquefied natural gas or LNG from the United States and
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  Middle East. Germany in contrast is only now
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  racing to build LNG terminals. The voltic pipe is a prominent
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  element in the European Union search for energy security and
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  is to start bringing Norwegian gas through Denmark and along
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  the Baltic Sea to Poland on October 1.
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  So Simon. I'm not even going to pronounce
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  this light follows last time, but it's a bit 20 lives long and
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  it starts with t anyway Simon who's An energy expert with the
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  blue Jewel. Think tank in Brussels said, the
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  leaks can't be a coincidence and speculated.
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  They could have been caused by Russian sabotage or anti-russian
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  sabotage. That's very insightful.
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  It could have been. It could have been caused by the
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  Russians, or it could have been caused by someone else.
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  I just want to, you know, just putting it out there.
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  It's either the Russians or someone else, but I'm an expert
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  apparently. So, one possibility is Russia,
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  signaling each is forever breaking with Western Europe and
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  Germany as Poland inaugurates, its Pipeline with Norway.
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  He said, now, listen you probably heard me talk before
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  about what the Bible talks about in Ezekiel 38.
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  There is a war which is led by Russia and a group of other
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  nations are believe. It's it's Iran and turkey are in
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  the mix as well on a couple of other smaller Nations.
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  And basically, They will come down and try and invade try and
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  Destroy Israel. Now, the whole reason that they
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  do, the Bible says, because they are trying to basically loot
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  Israel of its booty, I would spoils.
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  And if you think about it, Israel has a massive supply of
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  gas and oil. I believe in now, it would be,
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  there's also talk of building a pipeline to go from Israel and
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  the old Supply gas into Europe. Now, what would cause water?
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  One of the things that could cause Russia to want to come
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  down and invade Israel. If they've got a massive supply
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  of gas and they start start, supplying is Russia's enemies.
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  That could be one of the one of the reasons that Russia users to
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  instigate this. This war described in Ezekiel 38
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  when I say War it's it's the possibility of all God.
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  Two seeds intervenes and a totally annihilates these armies
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  that try to destroy Israel. That is what the Bible says.
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  So is this the start of something else?
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  Are we going to start seeing the talk for Israel?
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  Supplying Europe, heat up, bigger, things are happening
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  over there and Europe, there are bigger things that play.
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  I believe. We're starting to see everything
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  line up for the war described in Ezekiel 38 very interesting
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  time. Keep an eye on what's happening
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  in Israel. Keep an eye on the moves that
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  Israel makes because of this gas pipeline being destroyed.
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  And I believe we're seeing yet. Again, Bible prophecy starting
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  to unfold right before our eyes. That is my opinion.
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