Daily Broadside | This Administration Is Recklessly Abusing Its Power

When I was a kid we used to line up in the school hallway with our backs against a wall and cover our heads with our arms. We did it two or three times a year. This was how the teachers prepared us for the nuclear strike that the Russians were expected to unleash on us at any moment.

Well, it may be time to start drilling our children again and getting into the act ourselves. It seems as though Brandon is itching to start World War III with the Russians.

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.

Two of the pipelines, which were known collectively as Nord Stream 1, had been providing Germany and much of Western Europe with cheap Russian natural gas for more than a decade. A second pair of pipelines, called Nord Stream 2, had been built but were not yet operational. Now, with Russian troops massing on the Ukrainian border and the bloodiest war in Europe since 1945 looming, President Joseph Biden saw the pipelines as a vehicle for Vladimir Putin to weaponize natural gas for his political and territorial ambitions.

If this is true — that the current administration sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines last September — they not only committed an act of war, they deprived our allies of cheap, natural gas over a long, cold winter.

It never made sense to me that Russia was being blamed for taking out their own pipelines. If you ask, Cui bono? it’s tough to make a case that it’s the Russians. Why would they cut off some 45 percent of their annual budget? It makes zero sense.

In December of 2021, two months before the first Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Jake Sullivan convened a meeting of a newly formed task force—men and women from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the State and Treasury Departments—and asked for recommendations about how to respond to Putin’s impending invasion.

It would be the first of a series of top-secret meetings, in a secure room on a top floor of the Old Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, that was also the home of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). There was the usual back and forth chatter that eventually led to a crucial preliminary question: Would the recommendation forwarded by the group to the President be reversible—such as another layer of sanctions and currency restrictions—or irreversible—that is, kinetic actions, which could not be undone?

What became clear to participants, according to the source with direct knowledge of the process, is that Sullivan intended for the group to come up with a plan for the destruction of the two Nord Stream pipelines—and that he was delivering on the desires of the President.

So the Resident not only authorized the plan but was the driving force behind the plan — hard as that is to believe.

Over the next several meetings, the participants debated options for an attack. The Navy proposed using a newly commissioned submarine to assault the pipeline directly. The Air Force discussed dropping bombs with delayed fuses that could be set off remotely. The CIA argued that whatever was done, it would have to be covert. Everyone involved understood the stakes. “This is not kiddie stuff,” the source said. If the attack were traceable to the United States, “It’s an act of war.”

You don’t say.

While Trump was in office, we had the first administration in decades who didn’t start a new conflict somewhere in the world. But now that the Adults are Back in Chargeᵀᴹ we have Chinese spy balloons floating at will across the fruited plain as the mediocre clown installed in the White House pulls some stunt guaranteed to start a war with a nuclear power while dumping our leading edge technological war machines in Afghanistan for the Russians and Chinese to reverse engineer.

It’s madness.

Not only that, the report by Seymour Hersh also explains that the saboteurs found a way to bypass telling Congress what they were up to.

There was a vital bureaucratic reason for relying on the graduates of the center’s hardcore diving school in Panama City. The divers were Navy only, and not members of America’s Special Operations Command, whose covert operations must be reported to Congress and briefed in advance to the Senate and House leadership—the so-called Gang of Eight. The Biden Administration was doing everything possible to avoid leaks as the planning took place late in 2021 and into the first months of 2022.

Here again we have unelected deep state bureaucrats skirting our laws by making plans without oversight that could potentially lead the U.S. into a war. Just like General Mark Millie Vanilli who said he’d give the Chinese a heads up if then-President Trump planned to wage war against them and others who recently admitted that they never told Trump about Chinese balloons sailing through U.S. airspace while he was president.

These are acts of treason.

It’s terrifying that we have a military operating off the leash. It’s unconstitutional and needs to be stopped.

Have a good weekend.