Blinken Calls Nord Stream Sabotage a ‘Tremendous Opportunity’

[Paradoxical]

Sorry, but “America” is not stooging for Putin. Trump losers are. On cue from Moscow!

Ummm, sorry to tell all those with TDS. Trump is no longer president.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Nord Stream thread of the day.

I think it helps to have Blinken's full response for context:

My own sense – and I mentioned this the other day – is, look, there’s a lot of hard work to do to make sure that countries and partners get through the winter. Europe itself has taken very significant steps to both decrease demand but also look at ways to pursue the transition to renewables at the same time. And ultimately this is also a tremendous opportunity. It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. That’s very significant and that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come, but meanwhile, we’re determined to do everything we possibly can to make sure that the consequences of all of this are not borne by citizens in our countries or, for that matter, around the world.

None of this is controversial in any way, since it was something that came up even as the Nord Stream pipelines were being built and some nations chose to have Russia be their main supplier. In the scenario Blinken just described, it doesn't rule out Russia from being a supplier at any future point, but focuses on not having Russia be one which nations depend on exclusively; something Europe needs to think about for all future sources.

 

[TomFitz]

Ummm, sorry to tell all those with TDS. Trump is no longer president.

You‘re the one here shilling for him still.

And you bellowed this bs about Biden staring WWIII.

Which is ridiculous since you’re the one who supported Mr Putin’s war in the first place.

You and your beloved failed fuhrer are the ones who cheered when Moscow attacked.

 

[anatta]

“It’s a fantastic opportunity to terminate our reliance on Russian energy once and for all, and therefore to deprive [Russian President] Vladimir Putin of the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial aspirations,” the top US diplomat continued.

this shows the motive for the USA blowing up the pipeline

 

[LouC]

I think it helps to have Blinken's full response for context:


None of this is controversial in any way, since it was something that came up even as the Nord Stream pipelines were being built and some nations chose to have Russia be their main supplier. In the scenario Blinken just described, it doesn't rule out Russia from being a supplier at any future point, but focuses on not having Russia be one which nations depend on exclusively; something Europe needs to think about for all future sources.

Well, you are obviously not doing it the RIGHT way if you are taking Secretary of State Antony Blinken at his actual words!

Sheesh!

 

[Khayembii Communique]

Wow sanman has really gone off the deep end hey? Maybe the biggest Russia apologist on the forum at this point.

 

[LouC]

this shows the motive for the USA blowing up the pipeline

No it doesn't.

 

[Integrityrespec]

Blinken has called the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline a "Tremendous Opportunity" -- yet another Freudian slip removing doubts on who really bombed the pipeline of the world's largest nuclear power, risking escalation toward World War 3:

Blinken calls Nord Stream sabotage a ‘tremendous opportunity’ - The Asian Mirror

Blinken calls Nord Stream sabotage as ‘tremendous opportunity’ US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has welcomed the sabotage of

www.theasianmirror.com

The left, led by Biden appointees are a bunch of far left Green New Deal advocates. They don't know much about it but they support the BS they are told. Fossil Fuels are a necessity. Why would we harm our own country for energy sources that reward our enemies?

 

[RabidAlpaca]

Russia can just turn off the tap, and stop gas flows. As it was as of Aug no gas was flowing.

Russia had no identifiable need to damage them, as they can just turn off the tap. So what benefit does Russia get from blowing then up?

They get to play the victim and pretend they were attacked. There was never going to be oil flowing through Nord stream again anyways, so it was pointless for anyone else to blow it up.

Now you get to explain your nutty conspiracy theory about how the US is attacking its own allies energy sources. You people just make shit up.

 

[pamak]

Predictably, maga filths are upset when they see little Ukraine doing what Trump did not dare to do, delivering blows to Putin. The developments destroy the alfa-male image Trump and his filth have created for Putin.

 

[Grand Mal]

Blinken admitted it and Biden was asked how he could blow up the pipeline since it wasn't controlled by the US and he said something like "We could do it" or words to that effect.

These people who are saying it would cause inflation are just downright stupid fools, to put it mildly. The people behind Biden (most likely Soros and Obama) WANT us to be struggling to get oil. Their administration was gleeful about gas costing well over $5.00 a gallon. It's what they WANT! As for inflation, the more inflation there is, the easier it is to reduce the federal deficit. When it costs $20.00 for a loaf of bread, and $150,000. to buy a car, the debt is much easier to pay off with those cheap dollars.

Many many people will rake in the dough when we go electric and green. People like Blinken, Gore, Podesta. If you think the cost of gas is high now, just wait until the states and feds tax you per mile driven because their gas tax revenues have fallen.

Gawd, you guys will believe absolutely anything, wontcha. There's nothing too farfetched, no conspiracy theory so crackpot that the lunatic-fringe right wont embrace it wholeheartedly.

 

[Helix]

We all can guess who did it.

 

[ColdHardTruth]

So just come out and say it -- you want WW3. You want to blow up key infrastructure of the world's largest nuclear power, and you think nothing bad's going to come of it.

My advice: if you want to get yourself killed, then do it alone -- don't drag the rest of us along with you to your doom.

What would have been better, is for the US not to get involved in Ukraine's politics to begin with, in backing a fascist regime that clearly subjugated and oppressed the native Russian population there, turning them into worse than 3rd-class citizens. Victoria Nuland has been calling the shots in US policy on Ukraine -- she's a Ukrainian herself, and she's a NeoCon warmonger. She was involved in Bush-Cheney's illegal invasion of Iraq, and she was involved in bringing fascist to power in Ukraine. You don't mind this, because you just want to be a blind cheerleader for your "team". It's truly pathetic.

Russia is a fascist regime. Why do people on the right kiss Putin's ass? He is not our friend. Do you people on the right honestly believe that Putin would stop with Ukraine?

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

They get to play the victim and pretend they were attacked. There was never going to be oil flowing through Nord stream again anyways, so it was pointless for anyone else to blow it up.

Now you get to explain your nutty conspiracy theory about how the US is attacking its own allies energy sources. You people just make shit up.

Has playing the victim worked?

Now try this scenario on

It is Feb 1 and Europe is in a deep freeze and running short of natural gas. LNG is not enough and Russia could provide some in a week. But won't unless Europe drops the sanctions. That could cause a huge divide in Europe over Russia. Russia is far better off strategically having the option to supply than not bring able to supply. Russia can turn on or off the tap and hold that over Europe. Now it has no hold over Europe. Russia is in a worse position now with the pipelines damaged than before.

 

[Hatuey]

... so strange that all the Pro-Russian droids are trying to push a US did it narrative.

 

[pamak]

Russia is a fascist regime. Why do people on the right kiss Putin's ass? He is not our friend. Do you people on the right honestly believe that Putin would stop with Ukraine?

They are grateful he helped them win the 2016 elections and they remember that Zelensky did not help Trump win the 2020 elections. Magas know they need all the help they can get to win the 2024 election with an unpopular candidate. They are aware of the fact that Trump is not capable of winning the vote of most Americans.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

... so strange that all the Pro-Russian droids are trying to push a US did it narrative.

Why the US would never ever do things like fake proof to invade, or overthrow governments, which means bombing a pipeline would be so out of character as to be ludicrous

Even GWB now admits the Iraq War was illegal

 

[Paradoxical]

You‘re the one here shilling for him still.

And you bellowed this bs about Biden staring WWIII.

Which is ridiculous since you’re the one who supported Mr Putin’s war in the first place.

You and your beloved failed fuhrer are the ones who cheered when Moscow attacked.

I supported Putin's war? Link please

 

[Hatuey]

Why the US would never ever do things like fake proof to invade, or overthrow governments, which means bombing a pipeline would be so out of character as to be ludicrous

Even GWB now admits the Iraq War was illegal

Ah, I get it, stuff happened in the past, and that's why the US did it in the present. Cool argument.

 

[Hatuey]

Oh good, the retarded sealion is here.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

Ah, I get it, stuff happened in the past, and that's why the US did it in the present. Cool argument.

No, that the US did that in the past, certainly shows the US would not be above doing similar things in the future.

As for strategic benefits, the pipelines being blown up is better for the US than for Russian

 

[Hatuey]

No, that the US did that in the past, certainly shows the US would not be above doing similar things in the future.

Cool, so they, us, the US, did it in the past, and we do not know if maybe they did or did not potentially and theoretically do it in present or future.

You argued well sir, Rumsfeld Medal of Statistics and Geopolitics for you.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

Cool, so they did it in the past, and we do not know if maybe they did or did not potentially and theoretically do it in present or future.

You argued well sir, Rumsfeld Medal of Statistics and Geopolitics for you.

It was alien's

 

[Hatuey]

It was alien's

Hehe.

 

[Lovebug]

Lol, a Trump cultist declaring he knows who attacked the Nordstream pipelines while feigning to care about the well-being of Europeans.

Cut the act, nobody believes you. You have so few real things to criticize Biden on you have to make up things.

That's the second or third time someone suggested, one even insisted, that.