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October 2, 2022
The Weekly Whodunnit
By Clarice Feldman
There’s always some mystery in the news that provides a blank page for fantasy thinking. This week’s mystery has initiated a storm of speculation: What happened to cause leaks in Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and 2, designed to send gas to Germany? The speculation runs from rational to delusional.
A good example of more rational speculation is by Jed Babbin at the Spectator: He thinks Russia is the most likely suspect:
Germany, Sweden, the United States, and other NATO nations would not have attacked the pipelines. There has been some speculation among U.S. conservatives that we were responsible for the pipeline attacks. That’s clearly wrong for two reasons.
First, we have no motive for doing so, despite President Joe Biden’s February statement claiming: “If Russia invades Ukraine… there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”
Destroying Nord Stream 2 only hurts our European allies. There’s no reason to do so.
Second, Biden is too gun-shy to order any such strike. He and Secretary of State Antony Blinken would certainly consult with Germany and France before doing so, and they would have vetoed the move.
We may never know which nation did it, but Russia is -- despite its protestations -- the most likely suspect.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/10/the_weekly_whodunnit.html
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I'm still working on the SCOTUS leaker.