Most revealing, Former Peace Corp Volunteer, AKA, Miami Financier Wants to Buy the Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline.
Most revealing, however, is the involvement of a former Peace Corps volunteer—now a Miami financier—who reportedly wants to buy the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Trump might allow such a deal to proceed, but Biden will block it as long as he’s in office. The international sanctions regime complicates things further; this makes it unclear how such a transaction would be managed, or even allowed at all. Needless to say, the endless hypocrisy of the US Federal government would find some way to cut the Gordian knot of its own making.
Interestingly, the prospective buyer, identified in The Wall Street Journal as Stephen P. Lynch, has kept a low profile but argues that acquiring the Russian pipeline aligns with long-term U.S. interests.
This reminds me of the Libya fiasco, with the former, killed while on duty, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, along with several CIA contracted security guards, and this occurred against the backdrop of the alleged CIA weapons trafficking scheme to supply western backed Islamic terrorist groups in Syria in their struggle against the secular Assad government.
Many critics of U.S. policy in the Middle East, including myself, continue to believe that Stevens’ death may have been a tragic byproduct of a larger covert operation — an operation that, even if not directly overseen by Stevens, was part of the geopolitical gambit in the region.
Similarly, this Nord Stream 2 scenario appears to be less about geopolitical posturing and more about manipulating global energy markets to derail Europe’s economy, harm Russia, and solidify U.S. energy dominance. Perhaps this was the strategy from the beginning—a covert shift in the energy landscape, with European and American taxpayers footing the bill.
It is interesting that in February 2023, after [sabotaging-blowing up] of the Nord Stream pipelines, it is interesting how the US controlled NATO created a new Undersea Infrastructure Coordination Cell to assess vulnerabilities and coordinate efforts between NATO governments and the private sector. In March 2023, a new EU-NATO Task Force on Resilience of Critical Infrastructure was also created.
I Smell a Rat of a Deal!
I smell a rat, especially when reading the MSN coverage of the Nord Stream 1 & 2 pipelines, its demise, and how the WSJ reports how previously reported that a team of Ukrainians was behind the sabotage, which blew up the pipeline back in 2022, at least one of its two trunks.
As if Trump will go along with the deal, that question is answered too, as Lynch, who also lives in Miami, Florida, was a large contributor to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
So a former PC volunteer, whose claim to fame, based on his Linkin page, was he was the first Peace Corps Volunteer to set foot in Russia, from Nov 1992–Dec 1994, and obviously this is not the PC of JFK with the belief in ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country, but rather the opposite.
It is not by happenstance that PC volunteers are required to take the State Department Oath, and this is particularly ironic, now that he claims that “he wants to be the richest guy you’ve never heard of.”
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God.
He now describes himself as being an international investment entrepreneur, with an orientation to emerging markets, special situations & distressed investing. This would [include] extensive experience in large value, complex, cross-border transactions with nexus to regions of the former Soviet Union (FSU).
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
There is no doubt where his loyalties lie, albeit with some contradictions, all for the good cause, the US foreign policy agency, and it is easy to summarize that Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
We have seen it before, on the CV of another such a man in a Suit with a Black or Dark Blue Tie, as Putin likes to describe them. “Men in dark suits”, who remain anonymous to the voting public, continue to pursue the well-established interests of the elite with each incoming administration.
Take for example, in Afghanistan, same MO, same playbook. There, ARF was a venture capital fund set up at the beginning of early 2004 to make investments in Afghanistan, in such sectors as agriculture, stone mining, and other key sectors of the Afghan economy.
The principal manager is a company called Afghanistan Capital Partners, headed by one Pierre Van Hoeylandt. Van Hoeylandt claims to be a former Rhodes Scholar, a former manager at the ultra-exclusive consulting firm McKinsey & Co., and at one time, a journalist covering the Rwanda massacre (it is likely that nobody has checked whether his CV claims are true or not:.). He is known to have high-ranking friends; especially inside the US Embassy (it is believed the US Ambassador is an admirer).
I just looked him up on LinkedIn. Now he is head of a fund for climate change and biodiversity. He spends time in London and Capetown, South Africa. He has a PhD from Oxford and was a Rhodes Scholar like Clinton. I saw an estimate that the US spent 2 trillion in Afghanistan, so no surprise that lots were siphoned off. I don’t have the right kind of diabolical mind to benefit financially from these types of programs.
Create Chaos, and then Claim the Spoils of War!
Yup, either they want to have an American own the pipeline to ensure it never gets used again, OR is it going to be used again, selling cheap Russian gas to Europe for high prices—profiteering! See who will own Ukraine’s farmland when all said and done! Monsanto, Cargill, BlackRock!
They will import labor because the men and boys have been consumed in the chaos. The world is becoming very complicated, very threatening, and nobody knows what will happen next, however, if history teaches anything, some should be able to predict what will happen.
My grandmother used to share vivid stories about the 1918 Spanish flu, where grave diggers couldn’t keep up with the mounting bodies. Today, those involved in massive deals, social experiments, and drug trials seem to value profits over lives.
It’s a perfect scheme: align foreign and economic policy with personal profit. The true sources of funds for pipeline acquisitions during bankruptcy sales remain shadowy—strategic and opportunistic investors pulling strings, while taxpayers likely foot the bill.
Yet, the return on such investment will benefit those whose identities remain hidden, not the taxpayers who stump up the dough.
Ukraine appears to be a lost cause for NATO. The re-division of the world is underway, with Ukraine being just one theater in this “New Great Game” over finite resources—who controls them and who reaps the profits.
Other hotspots, like the Arctic, are less obvious but equally strategic. It has vast untapped resources and the emerging Northern Sea Route, enabled by climate change, promises safer, faster trade between Asia, Europe, and America—potentially bypassing chokepoints like the Houthi-controlled regions, and the Suez and Panama canals.
Chaos Profiteering
Lynch’s involvement in the Nord Stream 2 affair also underscores how sanctions, energy markets, and geopolitical conflicts are weaponized, forcing Europe to realign its energy dependence from Russia to the United States at an exorbitant cost.
Ultimately, this case exemplifies the grim reality of modern U.S. foreign policy: a convergence of statecraft and profiteering, where national interests blur with personal gains. The enduring question remains: Is chaos the goal, or merely the price of doing business?
Either way, those pulling the strings seem poised to profit, leaving the rest of the world to suffer the consequences.
As Lynch’s alleged ambitions with Nord Stream 2 unfold, one cannot help but recognize the systemic patterns at play. From Libya to Ukraine and beyond, the narrative is one of disruption, domination, and profit.
History warns us of these cycles, yet the lessons remain unheeded. Will the global community continue to tolerate this exploitative strategy, or will a new paradigm emerge to challenge these wolves in sheep’s clothing?
Henry Kamens, columnist, expert on Central Asia and Caucasus
