Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 28 2022 06:32pm)
I think you're really overinterpreting Biden's statement from that press conference. First, he most likely alluded to the possibility of the US really applying the screws on Germany in secret backroom talks if they don't fall in line regarding Nord Stream 2. Second, he was being unspecific on purpose. There was clear dissent between two major allies on the issues back when this press conference took place, and the reporters were drilling into it. Biden had a motive to publicly downplay this dissent without giving details, so he went for a generic "we can end it if necessary". What Biden said was basically the equivalent of Trump saying "it's gonna be YUGE, believe me".
Additionally, I think you're underestimating how much risk such an operation carries for the U.S. in the unlikely case that they get caught. The war is going much better from their perspective than from the perspective of their Western European allies. They might stand to gain if Ukraine refuses to concede Donbass and sign a peace treaty this winter, while Western Europe would benefit from this war ending as soon as possible. At the moment, both the U.S. and the EU have convergents interests in stopping Russia's offense asap and bringing Ukraine into as strong a position as possible before peace talks - but once the peace talks begin, interests will diverge again. They need the Western European publics to stand firm to achieve their geopolitical goals.
All of this would go right out of the window if the U.S. was caught blowing up the pipeline. Likewise, European willingness to fund the rebuilding of Ukraine after the war would imho take a big hit. And last but not least, it would prompt a ton of people to embrace the Russian narrative that the U.S. had deliberately pushed Europe into this war because they want to divide Europe and Russia out of selfish motives.
There are also two pipelines directly connecting Norwegian gas fields to Germany:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europipe_Ihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europipe_IISo as long as Russia isn't sending gas to Europe, Germany and Poland are in a similar position right now. Except that Poland's Baltic Pipe is much more accessible for Russian sabotage operations.
what you say about risks is true, but you are a normal, sane person
we are talking about ultra aggressive strategists in washington that dont care and have used massive lies or false flags in the past
gulf of tonkin, the dead infants in kuwait, weapons of mass destruction in iraq, they have used ridiculous lies to kill hundreds of thousands before, they will do similar shit again to push their agenda on others
the mass media is already pushing the "poootin did it" narrative and looking at the examples i provided this narrative only needs to hold up for a while, there were zero consequences.....
our own government is AWFULLY quiet, i checked the twitter accounts of olaf scholz, nothing
only the EU has bothered to make the standard statement here, why is that?