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Biden threatens German Chancellor of “bringing an end” to Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst
US President Joe Biden said after his meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that he will “end” the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Europe if Moscow sent troops into Ukraine.
“If Russia invades … there will no longer [be] a Nord Stream 2,” Biden said during a joint press conference with Scholz. “We will bring an end to it.”
When pressed for more details on just exactly how the US can achieve this, Biden could only mutter: “I promise you, we’ll be able to do it.”
The American president of course found it difficult to answer this question because his country is not involved in the Nord Stream 2 project and has very little influence over it – the only thing Washington can hope for is that sustained pressure on European allies will make them capitulate to their demands.
However, the reality is that Germany, Europe’s most important country alongside France, has its own economic interests that must be served and not compromised for the sake of the US. Berlin has defended its ability to complete the pipeline, despite the fact that the US opposes the project in any way possible. Washington has no interest in the fact that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is vital for the German economy and industry.
None-the-less, to try and appease Washington, Scholz stressed to journalists that Germany was “absolutely united” and that “we will do the same steps, and they will be very, very hard to Russia.”
This is on the assumption though that Russia will invade Ukraine, something that the Kremlin has continually stressed it has no ambition of doing despite the constant warnings and rhetoric emanating from Washington. Both Berlin and Paris understand that Russia does not want to invade Ukraine and desperately want the manufactured crisis to end.
Brandon Weichert, author of “Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower” and a former US congressional staffer, said to the Express newspaper this week: “Paris is hesitant about getting too bogged down in a Russo-American fight over Ukraine for the same reason that Germany is desperate to avoid escalation in the particular fight over Ukraine.”
“Paris, like Berlin, fears the prospects of their own countries becoming frontline states yet again in either a renewed Cold War between Russia and the US or, more frighteningly, an actual war,” he added.
Following talks on Friday in Moscow between Russian and French Presidents Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron, the Financial Times, citing French sources, reported that Russia had “moved” towards de-escalating the situation around Ukraine.
Specifically, the meeting was said to revolve around the withdrawal of Russian troops from Belarus after the end of their exercises in the country. According to sources, this will lead to further meetings and the signing of an agreement on “structured dialogue on collective security.”
Macron had previously proposed a re-format of the European security system to include Moscow in it, but this offer went unanswered. This time, the French leader again noted that it is impossible to normalize the international situation without dialogue with Russia.
“We must protect our European brothers by proposing a new balance capable of preserving their sovereignty and peace. This must be done while respecting Russia and understanding the contemporary traumas of this great people and great nation,” the French president added.
In this way, Macron, despite some differences with Putin, has an immense respect for the Russian leader. Macron, just like his German colleague Scholz, is a realist and understands that discounting Moscow’s interests and concerns is not a realistic prospect if order, stability and peace is to be maintained in Europe, something that the Anglo Alliance (US and UK) are not interested in as they would not be directly affected by a potential continental war.
As Weichert noted, among other reasons, France and Germany are also dependent on Russian energy supplies. Because of this, the two countries do not want to enforce the harsh restrictions that Biden demands.
In the view of the former Congressional official, the two key allies would surely “[throw] the Americans under the bus, which they will because Paris thinks that would weaken America’s unwanted hold over European affairs.”
In this way, the two European powerhouses, ignoring the incessant complaints from Poland and the Baltic states, are themselves deescalating a crisis in Ukraine that Washington and Kiev manufactured seemingly out of nowhere. In addition, although the Europeans are vowing to respond to any Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in this way shows “unity” with the US, they fully understand that Moscow has no plans for such an invasion. For this reason, Germany is completely unwilling to sacrifice its energy and industrial needs for the sake of appeasing Washington’s hostile anti-Russian policies.
People aren’t buying the illness narrative anymore and it’s Classic “Wag the Dog” behavior from Biden.
How dare they are that they dont want to be dying for US well being on Ukraine, how dare they are to not wanting to destroy their economies and saving US economy.. How dare they are..
hopefully someone throws Jens Holm under the bus soon…
She needs flushing… don’t they do that to poop?
If we are lucky he will get a Russian nuke on his dickhead soon.
Author clearly doesn’t know how hegemony works. France & Germany are spineless vassal states. When it comes to the crunch, they do the hegemon bidding. Their only chance was to align with the emerging Russia & China-led multipolar world based on mutual respect and international law. They chose to stick with the collapsing hegemon instead. Fate sealed, end of story.
All true, except – they didn’t agree. Both countries have been under the US occupation since 1944/5. US fully controls their economy, their media, their mainstream political parties, their military and intelligence services…. After 70 years of servitude they don’t even know how to be independent anymore even if Yanks give them freedom back. And of course, they never will: the whole purpose of this crisis, and whole purpose of NATO, is to keep Europe under U.S. occupation forever. Europe can only be free if: the empire collapse on its own, OR if it lose a major war so it is forced to leave Europe.
the people in europe will comme to the streets and stop the fabricated energy crisis. Loking to those who are sitting in the blue seats of europe, they are most of all zionists and pro zionists. If the zionists and the yankees starts a war, we will take action and block the movement of nato troops here in our country. When the yankees want a war, they have to play in there own sandgarden, not here in europe. Time for europe to liberate himself from the zionist rule dictated from 1945.
Two smart EU countries out of a pack of Zio US rectum lickers.
You can count in Hungary, Croatia, Italy too.
Europe will steadily move away from America and will be the king of the north.
Its actually the crumbling americant empire that wants to throw Europe under the bus taking out the competition. Because the crumbling americant empire isn’t competitive anymore. Their economy is toast. Fortunately France and Germany still remembers WWII, unlike the crumbling americant empire.
What France, Germany, et al, have not stated is what if the Ukro-nazis invade Donbass and start their genocide operations. If that happens, Russia will have reason to save the ethnic Russians there and will defend them. If that happens, will the world consider that an “attack” by Russia? I would hope not. It would be justified.
Of course it will be a russian agression like allways the western journalists will not see the attack of the friends of the west and just report on the “sudden and unprovoked agression” of the russians.