Posted on 09/28/2022 1:01:23 PM PDT by MNDude
Fox News host Tucker Carlson's long-running quest to blame the Biden administration for the war in Ukraine hasn't borne much fruit, despite his prominent perch on the most-watched cable news channel.
We know very little about what happened to the pipelines, which carry natural gas from Russia to Europe, or who was responsible if the explosions were due to sabotage, which authorities say is likely. Anything seems possible at this point.
But Carlson's supposed evidence for this being a U.S. operation is decidedly weak.
Nonetheless, Carlson continued, that's where some people are pointing. "The Washington Post got right to it," Carlson said. "Putin, they declared, is now weaponizing the Nord Stream pipelines."
Perhaps the most prominent quote Carlson used was from President Biden in February: Biden had said that, if Russia invades Ukraine, "there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."
Carlson treated this as no less than a smoking gun. He cast Biden's comments as him saying "that he might take out these pipelines." Despite often casting Biden as a doddering old fool, Carlson assured that, in this instance, the president must have chosen his words carefully: "He said there won't be a Nord Stream 2. We'll put an end to it. We will take it out. We will blow it up."
You begin to see the rhetorical trick here. Biden did not say we would "blow it up," unless you're using that phrase metaphorically. (At the time, the pipeline's construction was complete but it was not operational, awaiting approval from Germany and the European Union; a few weeks later, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Berlin would stop the pipeline's certification.) But Carlson's aim is clearly to make people think about it literally.
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I’m sure they needed her to think of that.
The main reason I doubt the Biden theory is that Biden can never make decisions on anything important.
Whenever the ex-Iron Curtain states like Poland propose something to help Ukraine. Biden and co have dawdled for weeks before doing it.
He just pointed out that Biden and some other Democrat threatened to take out the pipeline.
Well said!!!
We ran it even if we had support from the Brits or Poles. Germany is on the edge of backing out of the sanctions because they are getting decimated economically and public support is dropping like a rock. Obama and the Deep State are running things, Biden is no more than a convenient fool Muppet.
It makes perfect sense to me.
There were two distinct explosions. Remember kiddos: one is none and two is one. The “special” folks got to play. Whose special folks are they?
I think you are correct. I am afraid the “answer” might have a nuclear element to it. Elites playing fast and loose with existence.
He IS a publicist. I don’t expect him to be more than that.
Why not find out first who did the deed. Investigate type explosive used and find its origin.With modern technology, it’s difficult to keep a secret. Explosive traces are still in the water and in the surrounding soil. Take samples NOW! Don’t wait. Also include meat of fish located in vicinity.
“Brandon is not the United States, major difference.”
Brandon can’t find his way off a stage. Whoever made the orders to destroy the pipeline was not the old man we see on TV reading (and misreading) statements.
Tucker is a “publicist”?
For who exactly?
“Oh boy. He said the quiet part out loud.”
That’s exactly what happened!
To not ask the question slants the solutions to the problem.
When Biden says that “there will no longer be a NordStream 2” Biden is NOT saying it won’t get permits or will be sanctioned. He is clearly making an existential threat with respect to the pipeline. One could say that President Depends didn’t really mean it, but it IS the express meaning of his words. Recall that this is exactly the kind of “tough guy” braggadocio he has engaged in before, e.g. when he recounted extorting Ukrainian President Poroshenko to fire the prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden (and, by extension, the entire Biden crime family).
Alexander Mercouris does a good job of looking at the question of who was likely behind the sabotage (starting at about (5:38): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ju2Ggsvjbg
IMHO, it is highly probable that the US government was the prime mover, but I believe it might have been an effort that had the cooperation of the UK and/or the Poles. Mercouris doesn’t see the Poles as likely suspects, but the Poles do have a hatred of both the Germans and the Russians AND direct access to the Baltic.
I agree with Mercouris that the corrupt West will absurdly try to blame Russia, just as Russia has been “blamed” for the Trump Presidency and for shelling itself at the NPP in Ukraine. Given the success of the Covid psyops, our “information warriors” undoubtedly believe that there is no proposition, no matter how ridiculous, that they can sell to the Western public.
“Why not find out first who did the deed. Investigate type explosive used and find its origin.With modern technology, it’s difficult to keep a secret. Explosive traces are still in the water and in the surrounding soil. Take samples NOW! Don’t wait. Also include meat of fish located in vicinity.”
who could be trusted to do the investigation? USA? Russia? Poland? Ukraine?
Cui bono?
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