“Bi-cameral thinker” Burning Bright, on his substack, offers three theories of just who or what is responsible for the devastating attack on the Nord Stream pipelines — the U.S., NATO, or Russia — and gives the supposed rationale for each, saying he has trouble with all three.

Bright Brief: Immolation

Most commentators I’ve seen directly blame the U.S., especially given Biden’s promise, in February 2022, to take out the pipeline should Russia invade the Ukraine.

Tucker Carlson:

What really happened to the Nord Stream Pipeline?

No matter who the commentator is, they all appear to address the mushrooming possibility of nuclear war.

Paul Craig Roberts:

A Fateful Moment in History Is Upon Us

A few days ago, Roberts put out a commentary on Putin’s Address to the Russian People, given on Wednesday prior to Monday’s Nord Stream sabotage, and included that Address, pointing especially to Putin’s final remarks.

Putin’s Address to the Russian People:

“Abandoning Hope for Peaceful Co-Existence”?

Putin concludes:

Washington, London and Brussels are directly pushing Kiev to transfer military operations to our territory. Without hiding their intention any longer, they say that Russia must be defeated at all costs on the battlefield  leading to  the loss of all Russian sovereignty,  the complete plundering of our country, and the destruction of Russian political, economic, and cultural existence.

Nuclear blackmail is also used. We are talking not only about the Western-encouraged shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which threatens an atomic catastrophe, but also about the statements of some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO states about the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia – nuclear weapons. 

For those who allow themselves such statements regarding Russia, I would like to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and in some components – more modern than those of NATO countries. And when the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we certainly will use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. It’s not a bluff.

Russian citizens can be sure that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom will be ensured, I stress this again, by all the means available to us. And those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the same can happen to them.

It is in our historical tradition, in the fate of our people, to stop those who are striving for world domination, who threaten to dismember and enslave our Motherland, our Fatherland. We will do it now, and so it will be.

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That was one week ago. And then, on Monday, the pipelines blew. Can you imagine what it would be like to stand in the shoes of Vladimir Putin?

 

It does look like we have reached the precipice.

Cue, Trump’s return?

 

Or am I a fool, captured by hopium.

One thing’s for sure: if we do make it through this very narrow window, we will all be the wiser for it.