a democracy. e you can t be because in a a democracy, the government has a moral and legal obligation to tell you the truth. always, period.n and that makes sense because in a democracy, you are not a subject or a mere consumer. you reen. a citizen. of you are a shareholder in who the system. you were an owner of it.nt are y the people who run your government are your employees. likethey re like your cleaningod lady. you may appreciate the work they do. good jobe minute you. cuf but the minute you catch them stealing your cufflinks, you fired them. those are the rules because bu those are the rules because t whatbut what if the rules were inverted? what if you caught an employee stealing? but instead of seemingseem asha and penington, he whipped around and attacked you like you were the criminahel? f well, that is the experience of watching white house spokesman john kirby talk about the destruction of the nord stream pipelines. anyondestructorth stre who ie who thinks
questions is a patriotic dutyof of americans. in. shut up.o say it that helps putin. you know how to say you re not allowed to quote the presidentes of the uniteident d states promg to eliminate the nord streamstre pipeline.am you re not to quote his secretary of state, celebrating that sabotage. you re require d to believe that putin took out his own infrastructure. you mus st how does this fit into putin s playbook of course ,as you would expect, suzanne, russia says we had nothing to we do with this. we re going to launch go and investigation. but comlae on ,unch i look, u know, the indications are that i foul play was involved and that it appears that russia is certainly the likeliest suspect of this. of think thi is clearly an act of sabotage of some sorte most and russia is certainly the most likely suspect. i thinuspect. k might be just tt salvo of some additional thingsn that might be coming towardg europe.