Last night on Tucker Carlson Tonight, a TV show I watch because the host is very smart and also funny and often reveals things I won't hear anywhere else, the major story concerned the blowing up both of the Nord Stream pipelines which connect Russia's prolific gas fields to Germany's industrial heartland in the Baltic Sea. Even though neither pipeline was currently operational this was presented as a very big deal, on the scale of a nuclear bomb as far as the devastation it could cause to the environment both above and below sea level, and how much it would piss off Russia.
Carlson showed film clips from not long ago in which President Biden clearly stated the US would put a stop to the pipeline if Russia invaded Ukraine. This was echoed by State Department official Victoria Nuland, who last January said the US would make sure the pipeline "would not move forward" if Russia invaded Ukraine.
Carlson presented this news as a precursor to a declaration of war. Yet over on CNN there was no mention of the story; instead they were yammering about Trump and how he destroyed democracy on January 6, but today they wrote on Facebook that the Nord Stream leakage was likely caused by Russia. And in this morning's Wall Street Journal, a small story ran about how the pipeline had "suspicious leaks" that are triggering an investigation. Our local paper, the Portland Press Herald, reports in its Business Section that the Prime Minister of Denmark says the explosions were "deliberate actions with no information who could be behind it."
It makes you wonder: Is there really a Cat 4 hurricane approaching Florida today?
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