Listen to a reading of this article: Someone who believes the US or its proxies sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines can tell you exactly what they'd stand to gain from it and how little it would cost them. Someone who believes it was Russia has to perform weird mental contortions
Everyone knows that the US and/or UK blew up the NS1 and NS2 pipelines, regardless of any absurd and convoluted attempts to pin the blame on Russia.
The problem is that nobody of influence and authority in the West can say so in public, at least not after Radek Sikorski said the quiet part out loud.
The bombing of the pipelines was the United States government taking the mask off. I mean, Gonzalo Lira was right on the money when he said no one else on the planet had both the means and motivation to do this. Moon of Alabama thinks it might have been Poland, kind of a welcome to the Baltic Pipeline, but the US has proved this capability before with undersea data cables. Does anyone else remember the USS Jimmy Carter espionage sub?
This: "Being an American liberal means wearing a "Punch Nazis" t-shirt while cheering Biden as he arms Nazi paramilitaries in Ukraine and Hillary Clinton as she praises Italy's election of a fascist prime minister."
One wonders if neoliberals' brains aren't pretzel-shaped with all their freakin' pretzel logic!
Caitlin, why do you drink the koolaid about Meloni being a fascist? I disagree with her statements about Ukraine, and she'll have to scrub hard to remove the stain of Hillary's endorsement, but she plans to investigate the handling of Covid, and that's got the real fascists and neo-feudalists pissing their pants.
“Only an authoritarian government, firmly tied to a people, can lead the people over the long term. Political propaganda, the art of anchoring matters of state in the broad masses so the whole nation will feel a part of them, cannot therefore be a means of winning power. It must become a means of building and keeping power.”
Many in the US have this cartoonish conception of America as some sort of Justice League country straight out of Marvel Comics, a team of superheroes with a mission of righting all wrongs in the world, with Russia playing the Legion of Doom. Since the breakup of the Soviet bloc the US has invaded Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria (along with NATO in some cases) while selling the Saudis arms to kill and starve Yemenis, belligerent acts causing the deaths of millions. Yet the folks who have tacitly accepted all this killing by the US will work themselves into a high moral dudgeon over Ukraine, believing that the US can somehow set things right over there, when it is the US that has created the problem. That the US has no moral standing or magical superpowers to do so means nothing to people who have set off on what they tell themselves is a virtuous quest. Denial runs deep. It allows the user to deny his own country's history of criminality while projecting it onto the designated villain, a feel good exercise for those who practice it.
NATO choppers staffed and killed civilians in Libyan cities in order to give them an excuse to invade. I know because my friends were in the ground there when it happened. During the chaos that ensued, the US govt deserted them even though they were US citizens. Afghanistan ring a bell? It was the Russian ambassador who made sure they got out to safety.
Giorgia Meloni is a fascist as much as Biden is a coherent, moral, anti-war Democrat. In short she's a socialist by American standards and if she is able to truly do what's best for the Italian people, to carry out their will, not the will of the WEF, she is a giant step forward for Italy.
If more conclusive evidence comes to the surface that the US sabotaged the Nord Stream Pipelines, what will Russia's response be? Will this cause Russia to use hypersonic missiles on US targets? They don't need to use nukes because their hypersonic weapons are unstoppable by US NATO missile defense systems. Would a Russian hypersonic missile attack trigger a nuclear weapons response from the US?
Is this intentional damage to the pipeline, not only a crime against Russia & it's EU customers, but an environmental crime to the ocean & the planet as well? This has released tons of gas into the ocean. The guilty party must be held fully accountable and pay for their crime.
NATO is a terrorist organization, plain and simple. Its aim isn’t peace.
Don't you just love this insane upside down world we live in!? If only someone would stop the train long enough for us to get off before the wreck!
Everyone knows that the US and/or UK blew up the NS1 and NS2 pipelines, regardless of any absurd and convoluted attempts to pin the blame on Russia.
The problem is that nobody of influence and authority in the West can say so in public, at least not after Radek Sikorski said the quiet part out loud.
The bombing of the pipelines was the United States government taking the mask off. I mean, Gonzalo Lira was right on the money when he said no one else on the planet had both the means and motivation to do this. Moon of Alabama thinks it might have been Poland, kind of a welcome to the Baltic Pipeline, but the US has proved this capability before with undersea data cables. Does anyone else remember the USS Jimmy Carter espionage sub?
"Former Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski thanks US for damaging Nord Stream" - https://tass.com/world/1514367
This: "Being an American liberal means wearing a "Punch Nazis" t-shirt while cheering Biden as he arms Nazi paramilitaries in Ukraine and Hillary Clinton as she praises Italy's election of a fascist prime minister."
One wonders if neoliberals' brains aren't pretzel-shaped with all their freakin' pretzel logic!
Caitlin, why do you drink the koolaid about Meloni being a fascist? I disagree with her statements about Ukraine, and she'll have to scrub hard to remove the stain of Hillary's endorsement, but she plans to investigate the handling of Covid, and that's got the real fascists and neo-feudalists pissing their pants.
“Only an authoritarian government, firmly tied to a people, can lead the people over the long term. Political propaganda, the art of anchoring matters of state in the broad masses so the whole nation will feel a part of them, cannot therefore be a means of winning power. It must become a means of building and keeping power.”
Joseph Goebbels, Nuremberg, 1934
Many in the US have this cartoonish conception of America as some sort of Justice League country straight out of Marvel Comics, a team of superheroes with a mission of righting all wrongs in the world, with Russia playing the Legion of Doom. Since the breakup of the Soviet bloc the US has invaded Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria (along with NATO in some cases) while selling the Saudis arms to kill and starve Yemenis, belligerent acts causing the deaths of millions. Yet the folks who have tacitly accepted all this killing by the US will work themselves into a high moral dudgeon over Ukraine, believing that the US can somehow set things right over there, when it is the US that has created the problem. That the US has no moral standing or magical superpowers to do so means nothing to people who have set off on what they tell themselves is a virtuous quest. Denial runs deep. It allows the user to deny his own country's history of criminality while projecting it onto the designated villain, a feel good exercise for those who practice it.
Russian law I am told is only use of nuke when Russia threatened...with her very existence.
Now Russia got bigger, so that gives more to for the west to claim is a threat.
English seeems to be a language of war and mirrors more than love and peace.
Regards
NATO choppers staffed and killed civilians in Libyan cities in order to give them an excuse to invade. I know because my friends were in the ground there when it happened. During the chaos that ensued, the US govt deserted them even though they were US citizens. Afghanistan ring a bell? It was the Russian ambassador who made sure they got out to safety.
Watching my brothers perform the mental gymnastics that you described about Russia blowing up their own pipelines was very amusing to watch.
Giorgia Meloni is a fascist as much as Biden is a coherent, moral, anti-war Democrat. In short she's a socialist by American standards and if she is able to truly do what's best for the Italian people, to carry out their will, not the will of the WEF, she is a giant step forward for Italy.
Didn’t the Russians create acne in a lab?
If more conclusive evidence comes to the surface that the US sabotaged the Nord Stream Pipelines, what will Russia's response be? Will this cause Russia to use hypersonic missiles on US targets? They don't need to use nukes because their hypersonic weapons are unstoppable by US NATO missile defense systems. Would a Russian hypersonic missile attack trigger a nuclear weapons response from the US?
Is this intentional damage to the pipeline, not only a crime against Russia & it's EU customers, but an environmental crime to the ocean & the planet as well? This has released tons of gas into the ocean. The guilty party must be held fully accountable and pay for their crime.
Thank you Caitlin. If not for you and others like you, I and many others like me, would have gone completely insane long ago!