Putin is the Man of the Year, a leader with guts and a Master Strategist!

The West has acted internationally as exceptional, as indispensable, they exalted themselves, behaved as if the rules did not apply to them etc... and hence, Kosovo and Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria etc... and now that Russia is using their own tactics against them, the West is shocked that the rest of the world is not following their lead... in a generation, they destroyed the goodwill and primacy they enjoyed following the end of the Cold War

- (Ulysses Hobbes)


It is about time the West is told in blunt terms "the sun doesn't rise from ya asses"
-TheFreeOne

Tucker Carlson: Did The U.S. Blow Up The Nord Stream Pipelines? Of Course, We're Blaming Putin
On Date September 28, 2022

Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacts to the possibility of sabotage to the Nord Stream pipelines on Tuesday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight."


TUCKER CARLSON: I hate to start a Tuesday evening on a grim note, but one of the environmental catastrophes, one of the great environmental catastrophes of our time, is unfolding tonight off the coast of Denmark. The Nord Stream pipelines, which are enormous Russian owned conduits that carry natural gas from Russia to Western Europe, have been breached.

As we speak, Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 are pouring millions of cubic meters of natural gas into the Baltic Sea. Pictures from the air, which you can now see on your screen, show a toxic bubble field more than half a mile wide. You can only guess at how many marine mammals are being killed right now – countless. But the lasting damage may be to the atmosphere.

Natural gas is comprised of up to 90% methane. Methane, as Joe Biden has often told you, is the key driver of global warming, which is, of course, an existential threat to humanity and the planet. So, if you're worried about climate change, what just happened to the Nord Stream pipelines is as close to the apocalypse as we have ever come. So, the question is, how did this happen? And it turns out it was not an accident.

At the very same time that leaks in these pipelines were detected, Swedish officials recorded two powerful undersea explosions, each one of which was equivalent to hundreds of pounds of TNT. Nothing in nature can account for that. Almost immediately, the pipelines began leaking in three separate places. So, there's only one explanation for what happened. This was an act of industrial terrorism. That was very obvious to the prime minister of Poland and he wasted no time in saying so.

MATEUSZ MORAWIECKI, POLISH PRIME MINISTER: Today we are also dealing with an act of sabotage. We do not know the details of what happened yet, but we can clearly see that it is an act of sabotage, an act that probably marks the next stage in the escalation of the situation we are dealing with in Ukraine.

We can clearly see, he said, this was an act of sabotage, an act of terrorism. Well, yes, we can see that. So, the question is, who did it? And of course, the prime suspect is obvious. It would be the same man who caused domestic inflation here in the U.S. and stole the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton. That'd be Vladimir Putin. The Washington Post got right to it. "Putin," they declared, "is now weaponizing the Nord Stream pipelines."

According to the Canadian ambassador to the U.N., Vladimir Putin has decided to use "pollution as an act of war." Progressive Twitter strongly endorsed this conclusion. Putin did it and that makes sense until you thought about it for just a moment. Vladimir Putin may be evil. They tell us that he is evil, but is he stupid? Probably isn't stupid and yet and, here's the strange part, if you were Vladimir Putin, you would have to be a suicidal slowpoke to blow up your own energy pipeline. That's the one thing you would never do.

Natural gas pipelines are the main source of your power and your wealth and most critically, your leverage over other countries. Europe needs your energy now more than ever with winter approaching. If you can't deliver that energy, then countries like Germany have no need to pay attention to what you want. You're in the middle of a war, an all hands-on deck war, so you need all the leverage you can get. Under these circumstances, there is no chance you would blow up Nord Stream 1 or 2.

Not now, obviously. In fact, it's so obvious that even as our famously dim secretary of State, Tony Blinken, seemed to acknowledge it, sabotaging Nord Stream, he said today is "clearly in no one's interest." Right, but really only half right. It is true that blowing up Nord Stream does not help Vladimir Putin. He would not do that. Why would he? But that doesn't mean that other countries wouldn't consider doing it. They would consider it and we know they have considered it because at least one of them has said so in public. In early February, less than three weeks before the war in Ukraine began, Joe Biden suggested on camera that he might take out these pipelines.

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Notice how he phrased it and he's the president. He doesn't phrase things by accident, particularly his reading off cards. He didn't say, I will pause the delivery of gas from Russia to Germany. He said there won't be a Nord Stream 2. We'll put an end to it. Will take it out. Will blow it up.

How will you do this? He was asked. I promise you we will be able to do it. They thought this through and yet those watching, very much including us, didn't take Biden seriously when he said it.

This is the president who has declared climate change the most pressing emergency in the history of the world. This is the man who lectures you about using a woodstove or driving an SUV because of its emissions. This is the guy who spent billions trying to mitigate cow flatulence because methane. Would that guy really blow up a methane pipeline in the middle of the Baltic Sea? It was hard to imagine.

That would be an unimaginably reckless act. That would be the kind of thing you would do if you wanted to start a nuclear war. It would be insane and yet in retrospect, it's obvious they were thinking about this because Joe Biden wasn't the only person to suggest it. Toria Nuland at the State Department said pretty much the very same thing. Nuland is a lifelong war cheerleader. She worked to bring about the Iraq invasion, never apologized, kept going. She helped engineer the coup that overthrew the Ukrainian government some years back. So capable, clearly she's capable of anything... but environmental terrorism? Even for Toria Nuland, that seemed too much too extreme, and yet here she is in January.

VICTORIA NULAND: With regard to Nord Stream 2, we continue to have very strong and clear conversations with our German allies and I want to be clear with you today. If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.

One way or the other, we'll stop Nord Stream. Now, looking back, those words seem chilling eight months later, as natural gas pours into the Baltic Sea and is in the atmosphere. So, you have to ask, could the Biden administration really do something like this? We can't say for sure. We don't know for sure. We can tell you that close allies of the Biden White House believe they certainly did do it. Radek Sikorski is a Polish politician who is chairman of the EU USA delegation in the European Parliament.

He's connected. He's also the husband of regime stenographer Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic magazine. Sikorski is so close to Joe Biden that he's got a picture of the two of them together in his Twitter profile. So, when the pipelines blew up, Sikorski responded immediately and here's what he wrote. "Thank you. USA."

So once again, did the Biden administration really do this? It's hard to believe. Given that it's an atrocity, it's effectively an act of terrorism, we don't want to make that accusation, but we should tell you that maybe not coincidentally, today, a brand-new pipeline was unveiled, a pipeline that carries non-Russian natural gas in roughly the same areas, Nord Stream 1 and 2. This is called the Baltic Pipe. It was inaugurated in Poland. It will carry natural gas from Norway through Denmark to Poland and other countries nearby. And it's likely to do very well, since now it has less competition.

Making sense? What does the White House say about this? How are they accounting for what happened today?

Well, they're not exactly enthusiastically denying responsibility for it. Instead, they're looking at the upside. Here's the president's publicist, noting that the destruction of yet another energy pipeline is yet another opportunity for you to buy an electric car.

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: As you all know, these pipelines weren't pumping gas into Europe at this time and NS2 was never operational, as you guys know. NS1 has not been operational for weeks because Putin has weaponized energy and we have said this, many times before. This just drives home the importance of our efforts to work together to get alternative gas supplies to Europe and to support efforts to reduce gas consumption and accelerate true energy independence by moving to clean energy economy.

h. "Moving to clean energy" say that people who very may well be responsible for letting methane into the Baltic Sea and into the atmosphere at a scale that most people can't imagine. The people lecturing you about your SUV may have blown up a natural gas pipeline and created one of the great catastrophes of our time in its effect on the environment.

If they did this, this will be one of the craziest, most destructive things any American administration has ever done. But it would also be totally consistent with what they do. What do they do? They destroy. These people built nothing, not one thing. Instead, they tear down and they desecrate from historic statues to the Constitution to energy infrastructure and no one in Congress is trying to stop any of it. They're just preparing for the inevitable fallout. Tonight, the Senate just advanced a spending bill with $35 million for the Department of Energy to "prepare for and respond to potential nuclear and radiological incidents in Ukraine." What?

The spending bill also brings the total U.S. expenditure on Ukraine, the war, but also funding its government and energy for Ukraine to $67 billion on the eve of what could be a massive economic disruption here to our economy, $67 billion. How much is that? Well, it's more than Russia's entire military budget last year, and Congress is expected to fully pass the bill later this week with Republicans nodding along like the zombies they are.

What would be the effect of this? Every action has a reaction, equal and opposite. Blow up the Nord Stream pipelines? Okay, we've entered a new phase, one in which the United States is directly at war with the largest nuclear power in the world. It doesn't mean we'll go nuclear immediately, but it does suggest there could be consequences. If we actually blow up the Nord Stream pipelines, why wouldn't Russia sever undersea internet cables?

What would happen if they did that? What would happen if banks in London couldn't communicate with banks in New York? Just that one piece of it, leaving aside its potential effects on our power grid, but let's just say the banks couldn't communicate with each other for one day. What would the economic effect of that be? We would cascade downward into your house. We can have an actual collapse. We could wind up very quickly in third world conditions. Those are the stakes. Have the people behind this, the geniuses like Toria Nuland, considered the effects? Maybe they have. Maybe that was the point.

Damn....what a firecracker.

Truth hurts. Macron just got floored

What about Gumi, is he above the law? Isn't Mamu working with Gumi regarding negotiations with bandits?

Softmirror:


I HAVE BEEN EXPECTING SOMEONE TO MAKE THIS COMMENT.

No be true talk


It's disheartening naija elites / politicians keeps presenting career politicians / crooks for the no.1 seat when there are intelligent and smart Nigerians home and abroad that have something to offer.

I am glad we have an Obi / Datti as the third force to birth a new Nigeria.

Osinbajo should have been APC presidential candidate but for Tinubu's greed.

Shior ...APC ma lule laslas ni

A very good decision.

A new Nigeria of our dreams is achievable. Let's take naija back from divisive, corrupt moneybags and criminal elements.

If you support Obi-Datti candidacy then you are on the side of the masses to take back naija from kleptomaniacs and divisive evil politicians/ elites that brought the country to the current verge of ruination.

Vote Labour party for the birth of a new Nigeria of our dreams.

etrouble:


You never learn. We disgraced you in 2015. We humiliated you in 2019. Yet, you are still spewing the same rubbing you have been spewing over the years. How will you get a different result?

Just two hours into the election, you all will start crying blood because the direction of voting will show clearly that Tinubu is not in the same category as your clownish candidate.

We will teach you POL 901: Advanced Politicking in a Multi Religious and Multi Ethnic Crazy Society.

You mean POL 901 in rigging elections in a corrupt society?

Shameless lots with no iota of decency, fairness, justice and truth.

Shameless Eleribu journalist trying to idolise a kleptomaniac whose past is so shady that he had to deny his real parentage, primary / secondary education and cannot substantiate his wealth.

His master is so fraudulent that he always want to latch on to other people's identity. The Awolowos we know but can Omatseye tell about the Iragbiji con artist who denied / erased his past for personal aggrandizement and politics.

No matter what he does he is not fit to step into Awo shoes cos iku yato si orun (sleep and death aren't same).

[b]I am yinka odumakin and nobody can say he had known me under any identity in my life .I have led a straight life unlike you that people know under different identities depending on where they met you in your about 80 years on earth .Yes,80!

Those of us who are knowledgeable about you can’t buy your 66 claim for so many reasons .The current governor of Osun is the son of your immediate senior sister from Iragbiji and he is 63 while you are claiming 66. Your first wife died in Lagos recently unannounced at 74 .

When the son he had for you died many moths earlier his age had to be doctored to fit into the lie that you live. And there is a photograph of yours at the palace of Soun Ogbomoso in 1974 when the current monarch was installed with a bottle of beer and packet of cigarette in your front. You mean you were 20 when you were drinking and smoking in a palace ?

There is no school I have attended in my life that my classmates would not come out in droves to say “yeah, we were there together!”. From St Augustine Primary School, Ondo to CAC Grammar School, Edunabon and Oduduwa College Ile -Ife down to Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile -Ife and University of Ghana.

At your end St John Primary School Aroloya you claimed may be created by your new governor in Lagos. The old boys of Government College Ibadan were planning a reception for you when someone asked which set you belonged to .There has been no answer to that till date and the reception was cancelled. The tales by moonlight on Chigago State University and University of Chiicago are all over the place.

My parents are alive in Osun and by God’s grace I will give them a befitting burial. I will not have to send emissaries to bury them since I have not abandoned “moomi” (that’s how we Oyo people in Osun call mummy) to be calling another woman “maami” in Lagos to fit a life of lie and greed. No Mama HID Awolowo would have told me that she knew all the children of “maami ” and that I was not one of them.
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Collusion of government with terrorists you mean Anyway nothing surprises in naija again.

Waiting for lai..ing Mohammed, security agencies and Buhari's media aides to respond as usual.

From a man whose brain is stuck in Tinubu ass.

Whether he and his corrupt, senseless leaders and agbadorians likes it or not sincere Nigerians who loves this country wants a true change from the evil APC represents.

APC brought ruination to Nigerian within 7yrs and needs to be chased out of power. And Tinubu presidency who has no regard to our secular state will only continue same if not stopped.

Chokhmah:
so Obi too is not desperate? How do you explain why he decamped from his party simply because he couldn't get the presidential ticket.

Read my post again. I'm not talking about contesting election but their desperation in throwing to the winds germaine issues of fairness and our secularism as country.

Atiku doesn't deem it right that it is the turn of Southern presidency despite the fact that current president Buhari (8yrs rule) is from his tribe and Tinubu choose a Muslim VP though Nigeria is a secular state. Both guys jettison the usual arrangement since 1999.

It's about to go down. Vawulence unleashed

Shebi Tinubu once said he's ready to fight dirty ...OK he were go

Tinubu please prove Atiku wrong by granting an hour interview on Arise TV. Obi has done it and so is Atiku.

Na beg we dey beg you o.

I'm waiting for what he has to say in response to Atiku claims that Okowa can deliver more winning votes to PDP

Atiku and Tinubu are desperate politicians who doesn't care if the country burns as long as their ambitions are paramount in their calculations.

The OP made me remembered a TV news channel about a week ago or so.

A politician during the interview whose name I won't mentioned keeps advising another to take care when a question regarding a very germaine issue was raised, but in those so called good wishes i sensed a coded message is being passed across.

Wisdom is profitable for the wise.

Good move.

This will shore up Labour party's presence in Lagos and Peter Obi / Datti popularity.

This better be a joke

And if not then it's obvious the APC is scared of Peter Obi popularity / acceptance amongst the youths and a likely outcome of 2023 Presidential election.

The world has changed geopoliticallly and there's nothing the west can do about it.

Russia is at the forefront of the military superiority and China economically ...so what can they do? The alliance between China, Russia, Iran, India, South Africa and others bold nations are pointer to the rise of a new bipolar-multipolar world order.

Putin is a bold leader with foresight who doesn't bow to egocentric idiotic leaders who thinks the sun rises fron their ass.es

Bunch of senseless Idiats setting the country on fire cos of some bull.shit political excuses and desperation.

Tinubu is a desperate politician who doesn't care if the country burns along religious lines.

And APC in the usual manner will rig the elections if the results aren't favourable to their evil party. Osun gubernatorial election that brought in Oyetola is a case study.

But they'll meet their match in sensible Nigerians and the youths who are tired of APC's maladministration and wickedness.

The more he keeps polarising the country across religious lines.

What a desperado!

Some thought Putin was bluffing when he said colonial way of thinking and the unipolar world order isn’t coming back and now India has proved him right.
Waiting for China to make the necessary move too.

When will Africa wake up from its slumber

The old world order is gone with the wind

When the US declared victory in the Cold War, Americans designated themselves the “messengers of God on earth,” with interests that should be considered sacred and no obligations, Putin told the audience at SPIEF. New centers of power have since emerged, and have the right to protect their own systems, economic models and sovereignty.
These “truly revolutionary, tectonic changes in geopolitics, the global economy, in the technological sphere, in the entire system of international relations,” are “fundamental, pivotal and inexorable,” Putin said. “And It is a mistake to suggest that one can wait out the times of turbulent change and that things will return to normal; that everything will be as it was. It will not.”

- Putin

Be deceiving ya self. Are there no competetent Christians in the North?

Your desperation for Aso rock is the reason for your Muslim Muslim ticket not competency, justice nor fairness. Also banking on rigging to win 2023 election.

A muslim-muslim ticket under current polarised, general insecurity, kidnapping and unabated terrorist attacks on Nigerians most especially churches is nothing short of evil that APC has shown to represent. The current administration has often shown its disdain to popular opinion of Nigerians who wants fairness, justice to all regions and religions.

It is a clear message to Christians that their opinion and wellbeing doesn't matter to APC.

And if I may ask what is Tinubu's agenda for Nigeria? This same man pushed for Muslim Muslim ticket in 2015 but Buhari turned him down. Why is he so keen on this same religion having both president and vp positions.

Aside religion is he competent, healthy and without corruption baggage? Nigerians need to take back the country from corrupt entities with 'emi lokan' sense of entitlement cos they are popular and have cronies in every arm of government.

It should be 'Nigerian masses lokan(turn)' masses who has always bear the brunt of misrule and corruption of the elites and politicians. Every sensible Nigerian should know APC and PDP have got nothing to offer aside their usual ineptitude, failed promises and corruption.

Tinubu's desperation to become president at all cost has blinded him to all sense of reason.

A muslim-muslim ticket in present day Nigeria confirms the evil APC represents as a party.

I believe he's banking on the power of incumbency of the party to rig election and foist himself on Nigerians.

When a real man talks those discerning enough listens. The era of unipolar world order is gone for good, thanks to Russia for ushering in the new bipolar world.

Unfortunately current european leaders aren't smart enough to realise they are gradually losing the sovereignty of their countries to the US who's been playing them like ping-pong in proxy war against Russia.

And the manipulative comedian .elensky in his eagerness to do the bidding of his masters placed his country and people in harms way cos of promises and failed sanctions against Russia that has backfired across Europe.

UK Bojo is out despite his braggacio on ukraine war, so who's next? Coming months will tell and winter is coming too

olatade:
What happened in Kuje prison was likely prisoner swap. You will soon hear about the release of Abuja train victims that were in BH captivity for months.

I read somewhere on Nairaland wherein a close aide to Gumi claimed the attack was organised by same group that were responsible for Abuja train kidnap.

So it's difficult ruling out such plausibility and it's scary to say the least cos that'll be akin to state sponsored terrorism.

I hope it's not true sha.

82milla

I guess some crooked individuals want to use the terrorist attack to cashout

Lobatan.

Boko Haram attacked Kuje prison in Abuja, released their members and there were no security operatives to repell them?

It seems fishy to me....and if Bandits are bold enough to attacked Buhari security details convoy what else do we expect than to agree that no one is safe in this country.

Lai..ing is back on the beat

The FG is in frenzy pushing unpopular policies that has been rejected once again. Few days ago it was the water bill and now Ruga in disguise.

Nigerians must be on alert as it seems the govt is trying to ensure these bills are passed before the end of Buhari administration.

Good.

I watched Kwankwaso Channels TV interview wherein he arrogantly kept insinuating Obi an Igbo man can't win presidential election and it's obvious a tribal jingoistic like him is not fit as VP for Obi and may end up sabotaging labour party.

So good riddance.

Let his kwankwasiyya movement make him president since his ego won't let realise Obi is more acceptable to the youths and Nigerians seeking for genuine break from the old order.

Are we sure this dude is the same Seun Osewa of nairaland

Cos I've been wondering why the sudden attention he's been drawing on himself lately and if truly he's the same guy what does want or is he stylishly projecting himself for a political office in future?

I expected better of him...my opinion though