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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Biden: "If Russia invades...then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."

Reporter: "But how will you do that, exactly, since...the project is in Germany's control?"

Biden: "I promise you, we will be able to do that."

https://twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1574758480178999299

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This was Nordstream 1 that got sabotaged, whereas Biden was referring to Nordstream 2. And Biden was referring to putting pressure on contractors that would be necessary to construct the pipe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's both pipelines that got sabotaged, and US is the only country with a clear motive to do that as well as history of such sabotage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe it was actually the green party

/s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I wonder who has a vested interest in making sure the EU doesn't negotiate with Russia. I also wonder who's been selling the EU gas at viciously inflated prices. Hmm...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is totally Russia, you see, because USA stands with Ukraine, and Cold War, Russia bad, China bad, and le Soviet technology and must balkanise them and denazification is a lie to conquer Ukraine and totally do Western expansion!

Did I sound like NATO libs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Sorry for not being a true lib, I just cannot be one you know. No matter how hard I try, cannot happen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Looks like the US Navy was around Bornholm at the very time and place of the (alleged) sabotage: https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1574758898086694912

What a coincidence.

Meanwhile German mainstream media is already spewing out theories about Russian sabotage of their own pipeline and conveniently never mentions the actual prime suspect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8&t=81s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This is Stockholm Syndrome to a tee.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's the US Navy. If there's international water, they're probably there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And if the Russians were sabotaging it, you don't think the US would have seen them? Or the presence of the US have would have deterred them? Presumably in your mind they were already patrolling the pipeline for security. The US has been surprisingly silent on this haven't they?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

anon has an explanation