We've got to talk about the North Stream Pipeline because boy, about four months ago, people were going nuts over the Nordstrom pipeline getting blown up. In fact, four months ago, there were a lot of rumors that the United States was clearly behind the North Stream to pipeline explosion. And of course, a lot of folks just called that straight up Russian disinformation because the idea was that, oh, why would Russia blow up their own pipeline? They don't need to blow it up, They could just turn off the tap on one side. Why would they blow up? Uh, this this incredible infrastructure that they have to be able to export their natural gas to Europe You know at some point we hope that the war ends and Russia would be able to go back And Supply natural gas.

Now that was one argument. Why would not. Why would Russia blow up their own pipeline? Of course, the more mainstream argument was that, well, Russia would blow it up because they know that Europe's already going to say, you know what? We're never going back to buying your natural gas. Uh yeah, Whether or not the war is over or what, we're done with Russian gas and we're not going to use your Nordstrom pipeline.

Anyway, that's another argument that's sort of the the argument that says oh yeah, Russia did do it And so you have these arguments on both sides. You also about size. You also have this argument that why would the United States uh, a bomb the Nordstrom pipeline that is going to release an insane amount of methane into our atmosphere And it's going to basically double the rate of global warming that we potentially experience within the span of one year, right? because of the amount of methane that's released. And so a lot of folks like no, it had to have been Russia because the United States would never do such a thing now.

I Tweeted about this article who was put together by a Seymour Hersh now Seymour Hersh used to work for the New York Times He's also worked for the New York Post Uh, and so he's been a journalist for a while and we don't know with certainty that the information that he presents is absolutely accurate. but Seymour Hersh provides an example of what could have actually happened. He believes that what he describes is actually how the Nordstrom pipelines were taken down now. I Tweeted about Seymour's article yesterday morning and folks told me that I was pushing Russian disinformation.

which, who knows, you know. Okay, maybe it is I don't know, maybe Seymour Rush is paid off or hers just paid off by the Russians later of the day Tucker Carlson covered the article in light detail, not super detail will play a part of what he says here in a moment, but his actual article is really fascinating and whether it's true or not, I want you to know how they pulled it off, how they potentially used sonar technology to activate exactly their plan and it's very fascinating and I want you to hear about it. But first, we're going to listen to Tucker's take on on part of it because he's gonna set the groundwork for us. Then I'm going to go a little bit deeper into it.

So uh, let's listen to Tucker's take on it and then we'll go a little bit deeper on it. Here we go check in one dollar bills for the Hooters girls. hold up, we're still on. San Francisco Here we go.

Now we're getting to the story. So before the war in Ukraine even began, both Toria Newlin at the State Department, the number two of the State Department and Joe Biden threatened to blow up the Nordstrom pipeline. watch. I Want to be clear with you today: If Russia invades Ukraine one way or another, Nordstream two will not move forward.

If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the uh, the border of Ukraine again, then there will be uh, we there will be no longer on North stream too. We we will bring it into it would you? But how would you? How will you do that Exactly Since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control, we will. uh I promise you we'll be able to do it now. I'm just going to pause there for a moment and say look, those two clips right there are are kind that these are the clips that Russia ended up sharing Russia ended up sharing Joe Biden saying that I mean and Russia say look, we didn't blow it up, look at Joe Biden implying before we even invaded that he's gonna basically end the Nordstrom pipeline.

Now what's crazy about this is potentially what ended up happening. Okay, so there's this guy and we'll go back to the opinion here on on the video, but there's this guy Seymour Rush Again, he oh sorry, it was not the New York Post it was the New Yorker He wrote for decades for the New York Times the New Yorker and he published a bombshell on substack and he said that the U.S was actually the country at hand who blew up the Russia Germany pipeline as part of a covert operation under the guise of the Baltic operations a number 22 NATO exercise. Okay, that's that's his opinion. He says he relies on unnamed National Security Forces now usually because this is obviously being picked up more by the right.

Usually the right likes to say oh sure, unnamed sources so it's kind of like both sides do it, but whatever. whatever. This guy alleges that the Pentagon has been planning to blow up the North Stream Pipeline since December of 2021 and that the Navy originally proposed so I went through the sub stack piece and so it gives you a little bit more detail to kind of what we got and I actually think the detail is what's fascinating about the idea of how this could happen. So anyway, uh, the the author proposes that the Navy wanted to use a submarine to directly assault the pipelines.

however. uh oh and there were also discussions about potentially just dropping bombs from uh from planes that that would not detonate on impact with water, but it would then fall down to where the Nordstrom pipeline is and then they could be remotely detonated on time. However, the CIA allegedly came out and suggested, hey, we need to be very covert uh with Uh with with our operation here, we don't want anybody realizing that oh, the United States is behind the Nordstrom 2 pipeline blow up because then we're going to get reamed from a climate point of view because we're going to release all this methane and even though it'll severely weaken Russia's ability to export gas in the future future and the Reliance of Europe on Russia's natural gas will go away. Uh, because there will be no more pipeline.

Which means hey, maybe maybe now they have to rely more on the United States right? Because our uh, natural gas and oil industry has actually been booming, especially since Uh fracking has become a lot more popular. So anyway, CA is like no, no, this needs to be covert So instead, apparently and allegedly the CIA works with Navy divers under significant pushback back. But eventually the the CIA suggests we need to find a way to blow up the pipelines using divers and so apparently they work with the Norwegian Army to find out where can we set explosives And again, this is all a legit. We don't know if this is true, it's just an interesting story.

He's the way. I Look at it though. Norwegian Navy Apparently found a Lake location only about 260 feet deep within diving range for the divers and apparently they planted C4 on four pipelines. We know there were three explosions and they were covered with concrete protective covers that could be triggered at some point in the future, so that way it wouldn't seem like oh, somebody was just there and then it blew up right after it could be triggered at some point in the future.

Now, how they potentially triggered the C4 charges on short notice was fantastic in my opinion. Apparently what they wanted to do was use a plane that would drop a buoy in the water and the buoy would send a sonar signal and the sonar signal would activate the C4 charges. But the problem is in the ocean, you have a lot of animals that use sonar and you don't want to accidentally detonate it when you're not ready to. so they instead they used a sequence of sonar signals.

Kind of like somebody playing a flute. How Eerie is this? It's like the most Eerie thing ever. How Eerie is I Think about that like imagine you could hear the sonar and it's like somebody's playing a flute. Nice and peaceful, like you're on the Titanic And as soon as the sequence completes triggers the C4 on the pipelines Boom blows the pipelines up.

So the Norwegian Navy apparently uh, had the sonar buoy dropped. And of course the United States is denying this vehemently because they don't want to ever come across as potentially having created a climate Disaster by blowing up these pipelines. But it's a very interesting story. Uh, now you know.

Obviously you know Tucker's got some pretty aggressive stances on this. uh, he doesn't go into as much detail uh as I do uh on this topic I think it's fascinating, but I want to give credit where credit is due Credit is that four months ago, Tucker was the one shouting. Nobody else believed that it potentially could be possible that the United States was behind this. Got to give credit where credit's due.

Now we don't know if that's certainly the case, but let's just say the Nordstrom 2 pipeline went trending after this. uh on Twitter and a lot of folks are like, ah, quite interesting, including uh, Mr Sax David Sacks on Twitter I'd like to follow him. uh, he's uh, he follows me. uh, which is kind of cool.

but anyway. uh, David Sacks. So what did he have to say? and I thought it was an interesting point, especially in the face of a lot of the geopolitical attentions that we face right now. He says this week in foreign policy, errant balloon equals major provocation could incite War blown up pipeline.

Not a provocation could never incite a war. And really, what he's being is he's being sarcastic. here. he's being facetious, suggesting that look, everybody's so worried about this balloon.

Meanwhile here we are blowing up pipelines again. We'll probably never know with fact, uh, a hundred percent certainty what happened with the pipeline. But it's very interesting. and I have to say you know, after the last year of seeing so many conspiracy theories actually end up coming true through either the Twitter files or whatever, it just raises your eyebrows a little bit, makes you go, um, it is kind of interesting.

You know what else is interesting is China is making fun of us I kid you not China is now on the Chinese version of tick tock making memes Memes about the Chinese balloon and I'd like to show you one of them this is a meme of uh that that apparently was made in China to make fun of America chasing down the Chinese spy balloon I'll play it without audio here because if I play with audio, I'll get demonetized I think I've already said enough to upset the apple cart. but here you go. here goes the balloon. Oh no.

the United States can't figure out how to shoot it down. Oh man, it does acrobatics. Oh here comes the missile. Oh no uh, this is literally uh China just making fun of America at this point.

Uh, and they've played this a few times now. Uh, and and there have been a few versions of this circulating, including versions that show uh, that basically put the Mission Impossible theme over this. uh, it's pretty, uh, pretty entertaining and uh yeah. Anyway, there you go kind of shows that the way the balloon ended up actually dying was uh, the uh, the balloon crashing into the fighter jet was was the idea that uh, uh, you know, the US was so incapable of taking down the balloon.

Now obviously we know that the US actually shot down the balloon. Uh, and we don't have as much of an issue, but there are a lot of jokes going around and memes going around on this with with uh for example Tick Tock In particular, one of the things that I'm seeing on Tick Tock is, uh, people are turning the balloon into a Lego set now I Thought that was really interesting because uh, the uh, you know here it is I got it? I got it? Although let me see if I can pause. Yeah, here it is. Look at this.

How ridiculous is this commemorative Chinese Spy balloon age six plus comes with a fake handshake and includes concerned Citizen and you can assemble this 176 piece Chinese spy balloon. It's ridiculous. Now what's not ridiculous? And In fairness is you do have the United Nations warning that we are creeping towards War like World War and it's bad. Uh.

the United Nations Uh. Chief Uh has warned that he fears that further escalations in Ukraine will mean we are heading towards a worldwide war and he thinks that the Doomsday Clock has been set to 90 seconds. That basically we're not even aware that we're basically sleepwalking into a wider War as we potentially increase tensions and aggressions between countries. That's not great.