Weaponizing Energy

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Did the US or a proxy for the US have
anything to do with the explosion on the nord Stream pipeline.
The United States had nothing to do with it. That's
just Russian propaganda and disinformation. Again, like I said earlier,
I think it's interesting that Brett Bear is getting enough
of the emails and texts the same ones we're getting
on Hey, wake up, Biden did it? Biden attacked the

(00:23):
nord Stream pipeline, and uh all kinds of quotes from
Joe Biden over the uh last year or so saying
We're going to put a stop to that pipeline and
stuff like that as being used as evidence that we
had interest in shutting down the pipeline. Yeah. I uh, well,
I don't want to steal John Kirby's thunder. Brett Bear

(00:45):
went after him pretty good. You know, if you've been
thinking that this story holds water, you're curious or what
have you? So from the well, maybe I should ask people, um,
if you if you're if you're believing that the Biden
administration did it, they did it? Why to make Russia
look bad because they want us to be more involved
in the war or what is what is the I
hate to call conspiracy theory, but that's kind of what

(01:07):
it is. What what is the theory to make sure
that the Euros aren't buying Russian oil or using Russian gas,
severing that connection literally, So you can officially say that
the US was not involved in any way in this attack.
That's right, that's correct. Not to belabor this. But for
the people who look at this and say, why would
Russia attack its own pipeline that creates leverage over Europe

(01:30):
and perhaps the West, what do you say to them? Again,
I can't speak the specific accountability for this active sabitage.
I can just assure you the United States had nothing
to do with it. Of course, that's just Russian propaganda.
Without crediting it to anybody. Right now, what I would
say is just look at what Russia has done in
the past, since the last seven months of this war

(01:52):
and when it began, and that is to weaponize energy.
He's been absolutely trying to weaponize energy to try to
punish customers in Europe, countries in Europe, our allies and partners,
uh to to try to course them into not being
willing to support Ukraine the way they have been. So
he's the one weaponizing energy. That's a that's part and
parcel of his playbook. The scandal that doesn't get enough

(02:15):
attention is that these European countries, particularly Germany, but a
number of them, decided to put all their eggs in
the basket of Russia for their energy. Yeah, that's crazy.
I hope there's a political price for the for them
to pay for making those decisions over the decades. It's crazy. Yeah,

(02:37):
and Trump, to his credit, called him out on it,
called him out hard, and oh listen to this idiot
was talking about Russia. The same people who are laughing
at Trump saying, Germany's got to not be dependent on
Russia for energy. We're claiming all along the Trump was
in the bag for Putin? Which one was it? You

(02:58):
freaking nut job speaking conspiracy theories, just unbelievable. Um, But
the theory I heard was that Putin wanted to send
the message to Europe. I can get you in a
thousand different ways. I can blow up pipelines, I can
I can make your lives very very difficult. I can
cut off your energy supply completely if I want, and

(03:19):
you will freeze farm strong