Gee, I wonder who blew up Nordstream 2 and who let it happen. I wonder who is undermining Germany and our relations with Russia. We're not a sovereign country, Germans need to accept this. >"The primordial interest of the United States – over which for a century we have fought wars (the first, second, and Cold War) – has been the relationship between Germany and Russia. Because united they are the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn't happen." > "Therefore, it's not an accident that General Hodges, who's been appointed to be blamed for all of this, is talking about pre-positioning troops in Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, and the Baltics. This is the intermarium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermarium from the Black Sea to the Baltic that Pilsudski dreamt of. This is this is the solution for the United States. The issue to which we don't have the answers, what will Germany do? So the real wildcard in Europe is that as the United States builds its cordon sanitaire, not in Ukraine, but to the west, and the Russians tried to figure out how to leverage Ukrainians out. > We don't know the German position. Germany is in a very peculiar position. Its former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is on the board of Gazprom. They have a very complex relationship to the Russians. The Germans themselves don't know what to do. They must export. The Russians cannot take up the export, on the other hand, if they lose the free trade zone they need to build something different. > For the United States, the primordial fear is German technology, German capital, and Russian natural resources, Russian manpower as the only combination that has for centuries scared the hell out of the United States. So how does this play out? Well, the US has already put its cards on the table. It is the line from the Baltics to the Black Sea."