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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Bull s**t! Biden came out and said they'd take out the pipelines.
Extract from article up on ZH. Not good.
“Drones have buzzed at least six of Norwegian energy giant Equinor’s offshore platforms, coming within the security perimeter of 500 meters. One drone flew within 50 meters of the Heidrun platform in the Norwegian Sea. The company notified authorities of drone sightings.
“The Scandinavian country has a vast network of pipelines linking it to the continent, which experts have said are at risk of sabotage,” Daily Mail said.
This report comes as US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm alerted EU countries to increase security around energy assets, including LNG carriers en route to Europe. “
Brandon is not the United States, major difference.
Democrats will do anything to save the environment, except be morally ethical.
“This report comes as US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm alerted EU countries to increase security around energy assets, including LNG carriers en route to Europe. “
some Freepers here said USA had no means to transport NG to Europe. They do, and our cost for heating our homes in USA is about to sky rocket because we’re supporting some STUPID country in a conflict, not ours, that most Americans can’t find on a map.
There were rumors Germany was considering breaking-ranks with US/NATO and drop its sanctions on Russian gas.
In that case, both Poland and the US would be prime suspects in the sabotage of nordstream
Just a friendly reminder: Cucker Carlson’s still cashing checks from his masters, who he knows full well were part of the Big Steal.
I think Carlson’s theory is pretty plausible. You must remember that we are dealing with a bunch of incompetent radicals. Their goal is to bring about as much chaos and fear to trigger the “great rest”. What better way then to bring us to the brink of war. Why would Russia blow up its own pipeline? It makes no sense. Remember how badly the withdrawal from Afghanistan was. Why is it not possible this administration planned another terrible operation which put millions at risk.
Hilarious.
They should have gotten Pfizer to put a little arsenic or cyanide in those jabs so they wouldn’t have to start WWIII in order to reduce the population as much as they hoped.
I guess anything is possible and I seriously doubt Tucker would make such a conjecture if he didn’t have some credible sources. He’s not a political hack.
“This report comes as US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm alerted EU countries to increase security around energy assets, including LNG carriers en route to Europe. “
Projection?
The problem with Biden saying he would do it, is that it’s
Biden whose talking.
He also said he would build back better. How’s that going?
I don’t think the U. S. would attack oil platforms in the
region. With the circumstances what they are, I’m not
convinced the U. S. did this.
It could be proven in time I suppose. I’ll wait before
I blame it on our nation.
Blowing up it’s own pipeline and then hitting the platforms
could put the U. S. in a bad position. That would certainly
be a plus to Russia.
Did Russia do it? I have no way of knowing. I’m not going
to jump to conclusions either way.
Yep.
Hard to reach any other conclusion, honestly.
Better not say nothin’ more right now.
“Extract from article up on ZH. Not good.
“Drones have buzzed at least six of Norwegian energy giant Equinor’s offshore platforms”
Could be that Putin is about to help Biden in ridding Europe of ‘polluting’ energy sources.
Oh well, we started it!!!
“This report comes as US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm alerted EU countries to increase security around energy assets, including LNG carriers en route to Europe. “
duh
The sabotage will not go unanswered.
Oh boy. He said the quiet part out loud.
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