you can t be. because in a democracy, the government has a moral and legal obligation to tell you the truth, always. period. and that makes sense because in a democracy, you are not a subject or a mere consumer, you re a citizen. you are a shareholder in the system. you are an owner of it. the people who run your government are your employees. they re like your cleaning lady. you may appreciate the work they do, good job, but the minute you catch them stealing your cuff links, you fire them. those are the rules because it s your house, not theirs. but what if the rules were inverted? what if you caught an employee stealing but instead of seeming ashamed and pen tant, he ripped around and attacked you like you were the criminal? well, that is the experience of watching white house spokesman john kirby talking about the destruction of the north stream pipelines. anyone who think that the biden administration was in any way involved with that sabotage, directly or indirectly, is
directly or indirectly, is not simply wrong, no. anyone who imagines that is a bad person. a tool of vladimir putin. watch. did the u.s. or a proxy for the u.s. have anything to do with the explosion on the north stream pipeline? united states had nothing to do with it. it s just raush propaganda it and disinformation. now we know it was an active sabotage, but there s an investigation going on right now. i don t think we re going to get into into credentialing that in terms of, you know, who was responsible. we re going to let the investigators take a look at that, but clearly this was an act of sabotage. so you can officially say that the u.s. was not involved in any way in this attack? that s right. that s correct. not to belabor this, but for the people who look at this and say why would russia attack its own pipeline. that creates leverage the west. what do you say to them? again, i can t speak to specific accountability for this
you can t be. because in a democracy, the government has a moral and legal obligation to tell you the truth, always. period. and that makes sense because in a democracy, you are not a subject or a mere consumer, you re a citizen. you are a shareholder in the system. you are an owner of it. the people who run your government are your employees. they re like your cleaning lady. you may appreciate the work they do, good job, but the minute you catch them stealing your cuff links, you fire them. those are the rules because it s your house, not theirs. but what if the rules were inverted? what if you caught an employee stealing but instead of seeming ashamed and pen tant, he ripped around and attacked you like you were the criminal? well, that is the experience of watching white house spokesman john kirby talking about the destruction of the north stream pipelines. anyone who think that the biden administration was in any way involved with that sabotage,
questions is a patriotic duty of americans. shut up. that helps putin. you re not allowed to say it is. you re not allowed to quote the president of the united states promising to eliminate the north stream pipeline. your honor not allowed to quote his secretary of state celebrating that sab to the best of my knowledge. how does this fit into putin s playbook. of course, as you would expect, russians say we re not doing this we re going to launch an investigation. but come on. look, you know, the indications are that foul play was involved and that it appears that, you know, russia is certainly the likeliest suspect of this. i think this is it clearly an act of sabotage of some sort and russia is certainly the most likely suspect. i think this might be just the first additional things that might be coming to toward europe. what putin is saying to us by blowing up his pipeline is,
active sabotage. i just assure you that the united states have nothing to do with it. of course, that s just russian propaganda. so notice the question. did the u.s. did the biden administration or any of its proxies have anything to do with the sabotage. john kirby said we didn t do it and moves right to the point which is says anyone who says we did it is repeating russian propaganda. that s what john kirby says. that s disinformation. that s the kind of thing that only truly bad people say. okay. if the white house says, so obviously we have no choice but to believe it. but you still have to wonder, no one does believe that. why? where might some americans have gotten the notion that the biden administration might have been involved, directly or through a proxy, in the destruction of the north stream pipeline? why would they think that? they certainly didn t watch it on russia today.