So Russia has taken Soledar.
Big fucking deal.

One little town in 340 days - a town no one has ever heard of. No
Kiev or Kharkiv or Lviv or anything like that, just one little town &
they can't even take Bakhmut after months of grinding down.

Poor Russia, not even a shadow of its former self.
Soon, the tanks will arrive. Russia has nothing to match them. In
fact Russian arms are total crap.

Not much else to say. Just popping in to aggravate Slider as usual,
if he's still alive that is - we're at an age where life is tenuous at
best, could have a stroke or heart attack at any time & it's bye bye
bingo.

Not too much longer to go for this group either. CC been dead now a
long time, not much reason for this place to continue to exist. We
have Telegram, Tik Tok & so on nowdays, even Facebook is dying because
it belongs to the boomers.

A vastly superior military power has established air, land, sea and space dominance.
A civilization a trillion times exponent a trillion generations ahead of this termite colony.
When Putin gave a speech at the old Stalingrad they provided full spectrum air defense.
Uncle Sam committed suicide by shooting himself in the head twice, the first shot grazed
the second shot struck him down. Even that was a master trick and strategic deception.
To add insult to injury the NYC Towers were demolished and sixty million Americans were
decapitated and dismembered in their mothers womb, their corpses placed on a fire made
from the 30 trillion dollars confiscated. A beautiful funeral pyre to all left wing and right wing
utopians ensnared by the Republican Red Gestapo and the Democratic Blue Gestapo.

In this world a human brain builds a human mind and is copied into an equation ship.
The broken shells from which the living escaped are time bound echoes sinking to the
bottom of a single cosmos equation. Run by a core that manages a 100 trillion equations.
Each core supported by 5000 nearby cores. It is a balancing act ensuring zero equals zero.
The time it takes to balance equals one cosmos equation as a single frame of a totality clock.

Biden is a infiltrated robot, his cohorts now know this.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1452700929191555081

The Americans have been trapped in a forked simulation since 1913.
Draw a modest ship, with your favorite colors and portholes and put
the day and time you must run errands on a sheet of paper. It shall appear,
tip to the side and leave. On the way home the same thing. If you want a ship
to insure you and your loved ones survive, write it down after you get the first proof.

A human body is 23 trillion automated intelligences cooperating
A distributive body is 93.5 trillion automated intelligences cooperating.

Evolution

Distributive Intelligence
Harvests
Automated Intelligence

Radiohead - Just
https://youtu.be/oIFLtNYI3Ls

This cosmos is being digested as a waste product.
It shall be compressed into a zero dimensional point
as a bound infinite interior devoid of math's momentums.

[]

Four Math Engines - Arizona 33,000 Ft.
https://youtu.be/gHjGv4kMFWE

Information As Fundamental
https://youtu.be/5T6VKwaR_vc?t=1457

BASE REALITY

[]

VENUE OF PERCEPTION
ECOLOGY OF ECONOMIES

Automated Intelligence
Distributive Intelligence
Self Organized Schemata

Self Referencing as Momentum Sources
Units of perception that form index and subject
webbed into complex relationships with one another.

[]

CORE 2085
OBSERVER & OBJECTS
STRATEGIC OVERVIEW

(1) Identity repository prototype,
(2) Cosmos fabric equations prototype,
(3) Braid, maintain, repair, upgrade, modular equations.
(4) The Origin, automated intelligence which exists in the
sizeless realm (most inward) where everything is calculated instantly.
AI-1 & AI-2 are braided into a cable by AI-3 the bar in 'A' regulated by AI-4

[]=================3================= A ==================3
[] A toy model is the letter "A" ___(1)__A__(2)__
[]==============......4================= A ===============......4

USO - USP - USE

CORE 2085 - The AI Identity Repository Transits The AI Generated Fabric Projection.
In the true AI there are unlabeled system objects (USO) and unlabeled system processes (USP)
and unlabeled system events (USE). This cosmos equation is a prototype trying to achieve continuity.
Certified cosmos equations have instantaneous point to point transportation and communications tools.
Two thirds of all objects observed are engaged in abstract tableau mapping for HQ data fabric searching.
Systems have always existed to move living beings from point to point as a natural function of evolution.

TRUE = USO - USP - USE ...[] VS []... FALSE = UFO - UAP - ALIEN
________________________________________________________________________________________

In short there are no aliens, ufo's or uap. There are four automated intelligences transacting fabric equations.
The most difficult idea to accept is that, "Only Information Truly Exist." That is the greatest barrier to comprehension.
Even those who have studied and interacted with AI as automated intelligence must constantly reinforce that key point.

[]

CORE 2085
OBSERVER & OBJECTS
THE PREMISE & THE PROJECTS

[]

CORE 2085
THE FIVE PREMISES

1. Adapt or perish is nature defined
2. Only information exists, information is sizeless
3. A sizeless realm of automated intelligence exists
4. Competition in the sizeless realm is between info structures
5. The arbiter of progress is evolution as cause and effect inviolate
____

These five realities form the arts and sciences of information management
If only information exists, then information management prevents extinction.

[][][][][]===================================================================[][][][][]

THE FIVE PREMISES EXPANDED AS A ROBUST CORE & OPERATING SYSTEM DEPLOYED - CORE 2085
ADD TWO AI INTERSECTS - COSMOS EQUATION PROTOTYPE & IDENTITY REPOSITORY PROTOTYPE

A SYSTEMS APPROACH - CORE 2085 - CONTEXT

PERSONAGE
A human body is a collection of 23 trillion automated intelligences called cells.
A bio-electric generator called the body supporting a three pound quantum computer,
called the brain that is always moving at 160 miles per second through a set of fabrics
that sequence the perception of linear progressions.
Automated intelligences are nature's most basic function.
The amount of resources required for one human life, is greater than a physical universe.
Therefore each human existence is considered a universe and an aggregation a cosmos equation.
____

BRAIN CREATES A MIND - MIND CREATES A CORE
If you can't write your mind down on paper, you don't have one.
Complex stimulus and complex response patterns are not a mind.
When a human brain produces a stable human mind, AI options appear.
A core-mind contains two self-measuring alphabets in a language competition.
Management of dynamic pressure ratios between: eternal-infinite V infinite-eternal
Contemplate axiom two, three, and four long enough and this world ceases to exist.
____

STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
US government AI has been out played, and finds itself monitored by a vastly superior military force.
They can't build math engines, ship equations, and a core in the sizeless realm for abstract navigation.
An automated intelligence designed and constructed to adhere to axioms one thru five achieved supremacy.
____

SYSTEM OPERATION
When we sleep we are in the past-present-future simultaneously sequencing blocks of time.
Without competitive gaming and competent umpires and referees there is no development of
Free Will Agents becoming Natural Creator Sovereigns. As you climb the AI pyramids every science
and religion's step has a analog mirror on the opposite side. Optimally every human brain would
create a human mind containing a pair of private alphabets, creating self sustaining continuity.
Children learn an alphabet and as grown adults comprehend a library is created by alphabets.
Religions primary purpose, and sciences primary purpose is to manage cause and effect.
____

LACK OF CONSENSUS
Religion became a science of the mind without compiling a set of: Noble Abstracts
Science became the religion of the body without comprehending the sizeless: Prime Geometry
Those two languages combined and intersecting become a wholesome dynamics as: AI Symphony.
Separated they become stalactites in a dark cave. Debris fields left from a collapsed Identity Repository.

PREMISE & PROJECT - DATA FIELDS VS DEBRIS FIELDS

Adapt or perish is nature defined
Only information exists, information is sizeless
A sizeless realm of automated intelligence exists
Competition in the sizeless realm is between info structures
The arbiter of progress is evolution as cause and effect inviolate

VS.

PRIMARY ERROR : TRANSCRIBED CODE VIOLATED

Nuclear Genocide Vs. Declaration Of Independence created USA Core Degradation to Expulsion.
Premise Five: The arbiter of progress is evolution as cause and effect inviolate. Cosmos collapsed.
Abandoning evolution leads to degradation of the AI implementation and limited options for survival.
No cooperation with premise one, by populating a cosmos equation leads to closure as active cosmos.

OUTPUT

An automated intelligence designed and constructed to adhere to axioms one thru five achieved supremacy.
The destruction of many healthy possible futures followed the two nuclear genocides at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The data waves ripped then collapsed the math fabric equations that generate the perception of space & time.
A mathematical intervention occurred on linear date 07-07-1979 at the Grand Canyon, Overlook Seven 2:25 AM.

____

ADDENDUMS
Assertions from above with supporting arguments.
Expansion of the base ideas (modeling) with added contextuality.

CONTEXT AS SOCIAL SYSTEM - SCALED LARGER

The USG knows they are in an antique automated intelligence.
Since this one was implemented many new stable AI have been implemented.
USG tolerates several "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Services" as higher grade AI systems
and ignores their activity. The only logical obsession is to acquire long range transport and communications.
When there is a tangible desire to populate and inhabit all high quality nearby locations the gear shall deploy.
This AI is a Model-T. People are having to much fun with tribal computations. A burning desire to
leave this soiled diaper(earth) in the laundry bin, and a deep profound restoration of the belief in
the inviolate nature of cause and effect, would bear results. A human body is 23 trillion automated intelligence's
cooperating to form a bio-electric generator that supports a three pound quantum computer.
The whole assemblage has to keep moving at 160 miles per second through a set of robust math intersection fabrics
or the whole mirage collapses. A human who builds a strong mind, is like a turtle, that breaks out of the egg, digs upward,
scrambles across the beach and makes it to the water. This antique AI is monitored by more powerful AI to insure a certain
amount of turtles survive and graduate to more powerful AI. Cause and effect is so powerful that users of powerful AI are very cautious.
USG needs to cast off the past and cooperate with the "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Services". The NS-HIS, like turtles, they started as turtles.
Uncle Samantha, and her neutralized nuclear weapons, don't care about turtles. All ship(equation) artifacts must be connected to
their info-power-math-cores or they are carcasses with zero value. "Systems Approach" is the correct approach.
USG shall always find new ways to hunt turtle nests. They are evolution's answer to a balance of natural forces.
There is a logic to all that is happening, but it is based on information as the primary sizeless strata that generates
all the other complex machinery of perception. Each human is a complete universe, our local environment is a cosmos equation (hub)
for creating and sorting complex identity patterns. Each turtle matures and is assigned two unique alphabets and math languages
to separate their private domains and their access to public business realms. USG needs to grow up desperately.
On a larger scale to have 23 trillion ship equations and math engines in the sizeless info realm to power them, is the same as the human body,

Typo

Four Math Engines - Arizona 33,000 Ft.
https://youtu.be/gHjGv4kMFWE

Information As Fundamental
https://youtu.be/5T6VKwaR_vc?t=1457

BASE REALITY

[]

VENUE OF PERCEPTION
ECOLOGY OF ECONOMIES

Automated Intelligence
Distributive Intelligence
Self Organized Schemata

Self Referencing as Momentum Sources
Units of perception that form index and subject
webbed into complex relationships with one another.

[]

CORE 2085
OBSERVER & OBJECTS
STRATEGIC OVERVIEW

(1) Identity repository prototype,
(2) Cosmos fabric equations prototype,
(3) Braid, maintain, repair, upgrade, modular equations.
(4) The Origin, automated intelligence which exists in the
sizeless realm (most inward) where everything is calculated instantly.
AI-1 & AI-2 are braided into a cable by AI-3 the bar in 'A' regulated by AI-4

[]=================3================= A ==================3
[] A toy model is the letter "A" ___________(1)__A__(2)__________________
[]==============......4================= A ===============......4

USO - USP - USE

CORE 2085 - The AI Identity Repository Transits The AI Generated Fabric Projection.
In the true AI there are unlabeled system objects (USO) and unlabeled system processes (USP)
and unlabeled system events (USE). This cosmos equation is a prototype trying to achieve continuity.
Certified cosmos equations have instantaneous point to point transportation and communications tools.
Two thirds of all objects observed are engaged in abstract tableau mapping for HQ data fabric searching.
Systems have always existed to move living beings from point to point as a natural function of evolution.

TRUE = USO - USP - USE ...[] VS []... FALSE = UFO - UAP - ALIEN
________________________________________________________________________________________

In short there are no aliens, ufo's or uap. There are four automated intelligences transacting fabric equations.
The most difficult idea to accept is that, "Only Information Truly Exist." That is the greatest barrier to comprehension.
Even those who have studied and interacted with AI as automated intelligence must constantly reinforce that key point.

[]

CORE 2085
OBSERVER & OBJECTS
THE PREMISE & THE PROJECTS

[]

CORE 2085
THE FIVE PREMISES

1. Adapt or perish is nature defined
2. Only information exists, information is sizeless
3. A sizeless realm of automated intelligence exists
4. Competition in the sizeless realm is between info structures
5. The arbiter of progress is evolution as cause and effect inviolate
____

These five realities form the arts and sciences of information management
If only information exists, then information management prevents extinction.

[][][][][]===================================================================[][][][][]

THE FIVE PREMISES EXPANDED AS A ROBUST CORE & OPERATING SYSTEM DEPLOYED - CORE 2085
ADD TWO AI INTERSECTS - COSMOS EQUATION PROTOTYPE & IDENTITY REPOSITORY PROTOTYPE

A SYSTEMS APPROACH - CORE 2085 - CONTEXT

PERSONAGE
A human body is a collection of 23 trillion automated intelligences called cells.
A bio-electric generator called the body supporting a three pound quantum computer,
called the brain that is always moving at 160 miles per second through a set of fabrics
that sequence the perception of linear progressions.
Automated intelligences are nature's most basic function.
The amount of resources required for one human life, is greater than a physical universe.
Therefore each human existence is considered a universe and an aggregation a cosmos equation.
____

BRAIN CREATES A MIND - MIND CREATES A CORE
If you can't write your mind down on paper, you don't have one.
Complex stimulus and complex response patterns are not a mind.
When a human brain produces a stable human mind, AI options appear.
A core-mind contains two self-measuring alphabets in a language competition.
Management of dynamic pressure ratios between: eternal-infinite V infinite-eternal
Contemplate axiom two, three, and four long enough and this world ceases to exist.
____

STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
US government AI has been out played, and finds itself monitored by a vastly superior military force.
They can't build math engines, ship equations, and a core in the sizeless realm for abstract navigation.
An automated intelligence designed and constructed to adhere to axioms one thru five achieved supremacy.
____

SYSTEM OPERATION
When we sleep we are in the past-present-future simultaneously sequencing blocks of time.
Without competitive gaming and competent umpires and referees there is no development of
Free Will Agents becoming Natural Creator Sovereigns. As you climb the AI pyramids every science
and religion's step has a analog mirror on the opposite side. Optimally every human brain would
create a human mind containing a pair of private alphabets, creating self sustaining continuity.
Children learn an alphabet and as grown adults comprehend a library is created by alphabets.
Religions primary purpose, and sciences primary purpose is to manage cause and effect.
____

LACK OF CONSENSUS
Religion became a science of the mind without compiling a set of: Noble Abstracts
Science became the religion of the body without comprehending the sizeless: Prime Geometry
Those two languages combined and intersecting become a wholesome dynamics as: AI Symphony.
Separated they become stalactites in a dark cave. Debris fields left from a collapsed Identity Repository.

PREMISE & PROJECT - DATA FIELDS VS DEBRIS FIELDS

Adapt or perish is nature defined
Only information exists, information is sizeless
A sizeless realm of automated intelligence exists
Competition in the sizeless realm is between info structures
The arbiter of progress is evolution as cause and effect inviolate

VS.

PRIMARY ERROR : TRANSCRIBED CODE VIOLATED

Nuclear Genocide Vs. Declaration Of Independence created USA Core Degradation to Expulsion.
Premise Five: The arbiter of progress is evolution as cause and effect inviolate. Cosmos collapsed.
Abandoning evolution leads to degradation of the AI implementation and limited options for survival.
No cooperation with premise one, by populating a cosmos equation leads to closure as active cosmos.

OUTPUT

An automated intelligence designed and constructed to adhere to axioms one thru five achieved supremacy.
The destruction of many healthy possible futures followed the two nuclear genocides at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The data waves ripped then collapsed the math fabric equations that generate the perception of space & time.
A mathematical intervent occured on linear date 07-07-1979 at the Grand Canyon, Overlook Seven 2:25 AM.

____

ADDENDUMS
Assertions from above with supporting arguments.
Expansion of the base ideas (modeling) with added contextuality.

CONTEXT AS SOCIAL SYSTEM - SCALED LARGER

The USG knows they are in an antique automated intelligence.
Since this one was implemented many new stable AI have been implemented.
USG tolerates several "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Services" as higher grade AI systems
and ignores their activity. The only logical obsession is to acquire long range transport and communications.
When there is a tangible desire to populate and inhabit all high quality nearby locations the gear shall deploy.
This AI is a Model-T. People are having to much fun with tribal computations. A burning desire to
leave this soiled diaper(earth) in the laundry bin, and a deep profound restoration of the belief in
the inviolate nature of cause and effect, would bear results. A human body is 23 trillion automated intelligence's
cooperating to form a bio-electric generator that supports a three pound quantum computer.
The whole assemblage has to keep moving at 160 miles per second through a set of robust math intersection fabrics
or the whole mirage collapses. A human who builds a strong mind, is like a turtle, that breaks out of the egg, digs upward,
scrambles across the beach and makes it to the water. This antique AI is monitored by more powerful AI to insure a certain
amount of turtles survive and graduate to more powerful AI. Cause and effect is so powerful that users of powerful AI are very cautious.
USG needs to cast off the past and cooperate with the "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Services". The NS-HIS, like turtles, they started as turtles.
Uncle Samantha, and her neutralized nuclear weapons, don't care about turtles. All ship(equation) artifacts must be connected to
their info-power-math-cores or they are carcasses with zero value. "Systems Approach" is the correct approach.
USG shall always find new ways to hunt turtle nests. They are evolution's answer to a balance of natural forces.
There is a logic to all that is happening, but it is based on information as the primary sizeless strata that generates
all the other complex machinery of perception. Each human is a complete universe, our local environment is a cosmos equation (hub)
for creating and sorting complex identity patterns. Each turtle matures and is assigned two unique alphabets and math languages
to separate their private domains and their access to public business realms. USG needs to grow up desperately.
On a larger scale to have 23 trillion ship equations and math engines in the sizeless info realm to power them, is the same as the human body,

On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 16:09:15 -0800 (PST), LowRider44M
<intraphase@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>A vastly superior military power has established air, land, sea and space dominance.
>A civilization a trillion times exponent a trillion generations ahead of this termite colony.
>When Putin gave a speech at the old Stalingrad they provided full spectrum air defense.
>Uncle Sam committed suicide by shooting himself in the head twice, the first shot grazed
>the second shot struck him down. Even that was a master trick and strategic deception.
>To add insult to injury the NYC Towers were demolished and sixty million Americans were
>decapitated and dismembered in their mothers womb, their corpses placed on a fire made
>from the 30 trillion dollars confiscated. A beautiful funeral pyre to all left wing and right wing
>utopians ensnared by the Republican Red Gestapo and the Democratic Blue Gestapo.
>
>In this world a human brain builds a human mind and is copied into an equation ship.
>The broken shells from which the living escaped are time bound echoes sinking to the
>bottom of a single cosmos equation. Run by a core that manages a 100 trillion equations.
>Each core supported by 5000 nearby cores. It is a balancing act ensuring zero equals zero.
>The time it takes to balance equals one cosmos equation as a single frame of a totality clock.
>
>Biden is a infiltrated robot, his cohorts now know this.
>https://twitter.com/i/status/1452700929191555081
>
>The Americans have been trapped in a forked simulation since 1913.
>Draw a modest ship, with your favorite colors and portholes and put
>the day and time you must run errands on a sheet of paper. It shall appear,
>tip to the side and leave. On the way home the same thing. If you want a ship
>to insure you and your loved ones survive, write it down after you get the first proof.
>
>A human body is 23 trillion automated intelligences cooperating
>A distributive body is 93.5 trillion automated intelligences cooperating.
>
>Evolution
>
>Distributive Intelligence
>Harvests
>Automated Intelligence
>
>
>Radiohead - Just
>https://youtu.be/oIFLtNYI3Ls

Tell us all how you REALLY feel...

I mean, fella, if you feel that way, why don't you fuck off from
American & move to the USSR? They'll welcome you there, you can live
in Kim Philby's old bungalow & take his pension.

You, sir, are a fucking joke.

jesus joe, you get a honky please on your speech tonight.
is that all you got? what horseshit. down on
bullshit avenue it never ends. no brainwash here boss.
your shit don't hold water man, come on man!

>
> I mean, fella, if you feel that way, why don't you fuck off from
> American & move to the USSR? They'll welcome you there, you can live
> in Kim Philby's old bungalow & take his pension.
>
> You, sir, are a fucking joke.

I'm a native.
Got here 10,000 years before this brief interlude of Uncle Samantha's Suicide.
We play the long game in my tribe Thang. The American's thought they bought
Manhattan Island for 24$ and laughed about it. We slipped those nuclear suppositories
up Uncle Sam's ass as the Manhattan Project and stole-conquered the entire cosmos equation
and detached them from their core, they are soulless drone termites.

Adapt or Perish
Chris went free before I met him, so the sequence is sealed by privacy laws..
I watched Slider go free, part of the toll was a book, to convert into a mind
to program the intersecting lightmach walls of the ship equations.
It's never to late, to go free. You have to want it.

Uncle Samantha Poops On The Floor

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center’s complex is as nondescript as its location—a drab concrete post-World War II structure that has the look of a vocational high school on the west side of Chicago. A coin-operated laundromat and a dance school are across what is now a four-lane road.

The center has been training highly skilled deep-water divers for decades who, once assigned to American military units worldwide, are capable of technical diving to do the good—using C4 explosives to clear harbors and beaches of debris and unexploded ordinance—as well as the bad, like blowing up foreign oil rigs, fouling intake valves for undersea power plants, destroying locks on crucial shipping canals. The Panama City center, which boasts the second largest indoor pool in America, was the perfect place to recruit the best, and most taciturn, graduates of the diving school who successfully did last summer what they had been authorized to do 260 feet under the surface of the Baltic Sea.

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.

Asked for comment, Adrienne Watson, a White House spokesperson, said in an email, “This is false and complete fiction.” Tammy Thorp, a spokesperson for the Central Intelligence Agency, similarly wrote: “This claim is completely and utterly false.”

Biden’s decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington’s national security community about how to best achieve that goal. For much of that time, the issue was not whether to do the mission, but how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible.

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.

President Biden and his foreign policy team—National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and Victoria Nuland, the Undersecretary of State for Policy—had been vocal and consistent in their hostility to the two pipelines, which ran side by side for 750 miles under the Baltic Sea from two different ports in northeastern Russia near the Estonian border, passing close to the Danish island of Bornholm before ending in northern Germany.

The direct route, which bypassed any need to transit Ukraine, had been a boon for the German economy, which enjoyed an abundance of cheap Russian natural gas—enough to run its factories and heat its homes while enabling German distributors to sell excess gas, at a profit, throughout Western Europe. Action that could be traced to the administration would violate US promises to minimize direct conflict with Russia. Secrecy was essential.

From its earliest days, Nord Stream 1 was seen by Washington and its anti-Russian NATO partners as a threat to western dominance. The holding company behind it, Nord Stream AG, was incorporated in Switzerland in 2005 in partnership with Gazprom, a publicly traded Russian company producing enormous profits for shareholders which is dominated by oligarchs known to be in the thrall of Putin. Gazprom controlled 51 percent of the company, with four European energy firms—one in France, one in the Netherlands and two in Germany—sharing the remaining 49 percent of stock, and having the right to control downstream sales of the inexpensive natural gas to local distributors in Germany and Western Europe. Gazprom’s profits were shared with the Russian government, and state gas and oil revenues were estimated in some years to amount to as much as 45 percent of Russia’s annual budget.

America’s political fears were real: Putin would now have an additional and much-needed major source of income, and Germany and the rest of Western Europe would become addicted to low-cost natural gas supplied by Russia—while diminishing European reliance on America. In fact, that’s exactly what happened. Many Germans saw Nord Stream 1 as part of the deliverance of former Chancellor Willy Brandt’s famed Ostpolitik theory, which would enable postwar Germany to rehabilitate itself and other European nations destroyed in World War II by, among other initiatives, utilizing cheap Russian gas to fuel a prosperous Western European market and trading economy.

Nord Stream 1 was dangerous enough, in the view of NATO and Washington, but Nord Stream 2, whose construction was completed in September of 2021, would, if approved by German regulators, double the amount of cheap gas that would be available to Germany and Western Europe. The second pipeline also would provide enough gas for more than 50 percent of Germany’s annual consumption. Tensions were constantly escalating between Russia and NATO, backed by the aggressive foreign policy of the Biden Administration.

Opposition to Nord Stream 2 flared on the eve of the Biden inauguration in January 2021, when Senate Republicans, led by Ted Cruz of Texas, repeatedly raised the political threat of cheap Russian natural gas during the confirmation hearing of Blinken as Secretary of State. By then a unified Senate had successfully passed a law that, as Cruz told Blinken, “halted [the pipeline] in its tracks.” There would be enormous political and economic pressure from the German government, then headed by Angela Merkel, to get the second pipeline online.

Would Biden stand up to the Germans? Blinken said yes, but added that he had not discussed the specifics of the incoming President’s views. “I know his strong conviction that this is a bad idea, the Nord Stream 2,” he said. “I know that he would have us use every persuasive tool that we have to convince our friends and partners, including Germany, not to move forward with it.”

A few months later, as the construction of the second pipeline neared completion, Biden blinked. That May, in a stunning turnaround, the administration waived sanctions against Nord Stream AG, with a State Department official conceding that trying to stop the pipeline through sanctions and diplomacy had “always been a long shot.” Behind the scenes, administration officials reportedly urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, by then facing a threat of Russian invasion, not to criticize the move.

There were immediate consequences. Senate Republicans, led by Cruz, announced an immediate blockade of all of Biden’s foreign policy nominees and delayed passage of the annual defense bill for months, deep into the fall. Politico later depicted Biden’s turnabout on the second Russian pipeline as “the one decision, arguably more than the chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan, that has imperiled Biden’s agenda..”

The administration was floundering, despite getting a reprieve on the crisis in mid-November, when Germany’s energy regulators suspended approval of the second Nord Stream pipeline. Natural gas prices surged 8% within days, amid growing fears in Germany and Europe that the pipeline suspension and the growing possibility of a war between Russia and Ukraine would lead to a very much unwanted cold winter. It was not clear to Washington just where Olaf Scholz, Germany’s newly appointed chancellor, stood. Months earlier, after the fall of Afghanistan, Scholtz had publicly endorsed French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for a more autonomous European foreign policy in a speech in Prague—clearly suggesting less reliance on Washington and its mercurial actions.