Germany honored U.S. President Joe Biden for his contribution to trans-Atlantic relations on Friday, ahead of his meetings with European allies on Russia’s war in Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East.
Germany Honors Biden for His Contribution to Trans-Atlantic Ties as the U.S. Election Looms
The sheer delight the pathetic “Traffic Light” coalition government takes in abasing itself before the US hegemon is pornographic in its shameless indecency. Especially the same week that the Danes reported this:
Just days before the Nord Stream gas pipeline attack in September 2022, warships belonging to the U.S. Navy were on the scene and ordered nearby officials to keep away.
That is according to John Anker Nielsen, who is harbour master at Christiansø, the easternmost part of Denmark in the Baltic Sea, northeast of the island of Bornholm and close to the sites of the Nord Stream explosions.
Map showing the route of Nord Stream 1 and 2 in the southern Baltic Sea and location of the leaks. AWZ=Exclusive Economic Zone
Map: AFP / Nadine EHRENBERG, adapted
Nielsen late last month told a reporter at Politiken, a major Danish daily, that he went out with a rescue team four or five days before the blast to check on nearby ships with switched-off radios, suspecting there might have been an accident, only to find U.S. warships, whose staff ordered the team to turn back immediately.
Biden: If Russia invades uh that means tanks or troops crossing the uh the border of Ukraine again then uh there will be uh we there will be no longer a Nordstream 2. We will bring an end to it.
Reporter: What? How would you how will you do that exactly since the project and control of the project is within Germany’s control?
Biden: We will. I promise you we’ll be able to do it.
and Nuland did it too. This video is still up on the State Department’s official Facebook page because they’re proud of it:
“If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.”
And Never forget what Nuland said at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on January 26, 2023:
“I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you [Ted Cruz] like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.”
“…ultimately this is also a tremendous opportunity. It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. That’s very significant and that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come…”
German industry increasingly struggles to compete on the world stage. Particularly hard hit are its mighty chemical and heavy industry sectors, which are now in rapid decline. One of the main drivers is policies that have made energy costs skyrocket, and there Germany serves as a canary in the coal mine for other leading industrial nations.
It’s kind of grimly amusing that Forbes’ use of the euphemism “policies that have made energy costs skyrocket” rather than say “self-defeating sanctions on cheap Russian gas combined with the biggest act of industrial sabotage in modern history” and it also doesn’t mention that it’s been America’s policies that have deindustrialized Germany.
It’s also so humiliating as an American that the neo-conservative cabal of psychopathic nitwits has been in sole control of US foreign policy since the Clinton administration and now they have a lock on US corporate media as well.
In the eastern states of Saxony and Thuringia, the far-right AfD received more than double as many votes as the three parties which make up the federal coalition government — the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), environmentalist Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP) — combined. These parties’ results are each in the single digits. The Greens in Thuringia and the FDP in both states even failed to meet the 5% threshold to be represented in the state parliaments.
“Biden received the highest class of Germany’s Order of Merit, which was also bestowed on former U.S. President George H.W. Bush for his support of German reunification.”
Kind of fitting that the era of American unipolarity is framed this way. Bush at the beginning. Biden at the end. The Germans footing the bill for American foreign policy.
The term “Stockholm Syndrome” originated after Swedish bank customers displayed sympathy for the robbers who held them hostage. In light of the name of the current German chancellor, who’s taken the side of the regime that has taken Germany’s entire economy as a hostage, I propose a new wording: “Scholzholm Syndrome.”
People need to do some thinking about how easy it is to access these targets with modern rigs. Why, in the absolute name of all that is holy would I launch a covert operation from something long, grey and underway given that? This isn’t Ivy Bells – more like Lichen Jingle…
I’ll admit to being initially shocked at this. But–
Let’s remember our canonical “1984”. The plebs must be thoroughly indoctrinated “to love Big Brother” even as his boot is repeatedly kicking in your teeth.
Of course, the German leadership are part of the Globalist 0.1%. They do love Biden, & they love to obey without thinking, even when it leads directly to the destruction of their own nation-state. The only instrumental thought in their evil brains can be– when will the loser plebs figure this scam out & turn on me?
That day is coming. Sholz already did very badly in the last by-elections in Thuringia & Saxony, though he personally held on in his own voting area. As to the ceremony itself, someone (Alex Christoforou I think) pointed out it wasn’t even clear if Biden knew what “honors” he was receiving, out to lunch as always.
Inconveniently for Sholz & the Deutsch PTB, There’s the Danish harbormaster who spilled the beans, that a group of US Navy ships was sitting right next to the bombing site a day or 2 prior, he noticed their comms were turned off, thought there might have been an accident, went out to investigate, & was angrily warned to go away.
Here’s the thing though. No amount of magical thinking will rebuild Germany’s material economy, things will worsen. No amount of Narrative Control (Look at what a Savior Joe Bidet was to Deutschland!) will overcome that in the medium to long run. The bill will come due, unless 51% of the scheissekopfs can be convinced that the destroyed economy was “an act of God”, the bill will come due for the Ruling Class, & specifically for Herr Sholz, who in the future will earn the acclaim a Marshall Petain might receive in France today, e.g.
The bill is coming due right now in Ukraine. Zelensky is losing his tiny, TV clown’s mind, was just shrieking a few days ago that Ukraine MUST be admitted to NATO immediately, or he will get a Nuke & really stick it to those Red swine. (He was told to shut up by his betters. Even the insane WH handlers running things won’t do either.)
The fat lady sings, later if they’re lucky, but eventually. There are bills due in “Keev”, in Berlin, & in DC. They can’t be ignored or denied forever.
The only instrumental thought in their evil brains can be– when will the loser plebs figure this scam out & turn on me?
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Likely, but it could also be that the professional managerial class (PMC) is “thoroughly indoctrinated “to love Big Brother””
The PMC grew up with the same constant propaganda as us plebs. It is arguable that they would be more susceptible to it because they lived a life of luxury and the propaganda told them how virtuous, deserving, and better they are then everyone else.
The hallways to power and popularity select for people lacking in principles, morals and critical thinking skills.
Yes, Oakchair, of course I agree, it is most generally both, not either.
There will be a few who will be smart enough to know they are cutting that branch out from under themselves. But the ruling class entitlement makes them incredibly brainwashed & stupid. So it will be only a few who could even conceptualize the basic insight to ask themselves, “Will this hurt ME in the long run?”
Sholz, I don’t think, is one of these. There may be others who are. They are likely in the minority, I’d guess.
Reminds me about an old Czech joke, from the Soviet times: Czechoslovakia is the most neutral country in the world. We don’t even meddle in our own affairs.
mago
How have I screwed thee over?
Let me count the ways . . .
Bukko Boomeranger
The term “Stockholm Syndrome” originated after Swedish bank customers displayed sympathy for the robbers who held them hostage. In light of the name of the current German chancellor, who’s taken the side of the regime that has taken Germany’s entire economy as a hostage, I propose a new wording: “Scholzholm Syndrome.”
Carborundum
People need to do some thinking about how easy it is to access these targets with modern rigs. Why, in the absolute name of all that is holy would I launch a covert operation from something long, grey and underway given that? This isn’t Ivy Bells – more like Lichen Jingle…
Mark Level
I’ll admit to being initially shocked at this. But–
Let’s remember our canonical “1984”. The plebs must be thoroughly indoctrinated “to love Big Brother” even as his boot is repeatedly kicking in your teeth.
Of course, the German leadership are part of the Globalist 0.1%. They do love Biden, & they love to obey without thinking, even when it leads directly to the destruction of their own nation-state. The only instrumental thought in their evil brains can be– when will the loser plebs figure this scam out & turn on me?
That day is coming. Sholz already did very badly in the last by-elections in Thuringia & Saxony, though he personally held on in his own voting area. As to the ceremony itself, someone (Alex Christoforou I think) pointed out it wasn’t even clear if Biden knew what “honors” he was receiving, out to lunch as always.
Inconveniently for Sholz & the Deutsch PTB, There’s the Danish harbormaster who spilled the beans, that a group of US Navy ships was sitting right next to the bombing site a day or 2 prior, he noticed their comms were turned off, thought there might have been an accident, went out to investigate, & was angrily warned to go away.
Here’s the thing though. No amount of magical thinking will rebuild Germany’s material economy, things will worsen. No amount of Narrative Control (Look at what a Savior Joe Bidet was to Deutschland!) will overcome that in the medium to long run. The bill will come due, unless 51% of the scheissekopfs can be convinced that the destroyed economy was “an act of God”, the bill will come due for the Ruling Class, & specifically for Herr Sholz, who in the future will earn the acclaim a Marshall Petain might receive in France today, e.g.
The bill is coming due right now in Ukraine. Zelensky is losing his tiny, TV clown’s mind, was just shrieking a few days ago that Ukraine MUST be admitted to NATO immediately, or he will get a Nuke & really stick it to those Red swine. (He was told to shut up by his betters. Even the insane WH handlers running things won’t do either.)
The fat lady sings, later if they’re lucky, but eventually. There are bills due in “Keev”, in Berlin, & in DC. They can’t be ignored or denied forever.
Oakchair
The only instrumental thought in their evil brains can be– when will the loser plebs figure this scam out & turn on me?
——
Likely, but it could also be that the professional managerial class (PMC) is “thoroughly indoctrinated “to love Big Brother””
The PMC grew up with the same constant propaganda as us plebs. It is arguable that they would be more susceptible to it because they lived a life of luxury and the propaganda told them how virtuous, deserving, and better they are then everyone else.
The hallways to power and popularity select for people lacking in principles, morals and critical thinking skills.
Mark Level
Yes, Oakchair, of course I agree, it is most generally both, not either.
There will be a few who will be smart enough to know they are cutting that branch out from under themselves. But the ruling class entitlement makes them incredibly brainwashed & stupid. So it will be only a few who could even conceptualize the basic insight to ask themselves, “Will this hurt ME in the long run?”
Sholz, I don’t think, is one of these. There may be others who are. They are likely in the minority, I’d guess.
Jan Wiklund
Reminds me about an old Czech joke, from the Soviet times: Czechoslovakia is the most neutral country in the world. We don’t even meddle in our own affairs.