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"There will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."

>>swader+(OP)
And NS 2 ended, it was never certified. No need to blow it up...

>>swader+(OP)
There is no longer an Enron, either. No one blew up their headquarters to do it.

>>ceejay+S1
The original enron pipelines are still moving product. They still 'be'. Biden wasn't talking about Gazprom. His words are very clear and direct. They are congruent with his body language and tone. He looked down at his notes before speaking.

>>swader+M3
Don't be disingenous. "We will put an end to x" does not mean "we will blow x up", and is common political rhetoric.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=5567609899962902 "We will put an end to Abbott's attacks on educators, raise teacher pay, improve their retirement benefits, and fully fund our classrooms."

https://larson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/larson-... "we will put an end to the decades of price gouging"

Again, "we'll bankrupt them with sanctions" easily falls under "we will put an end to them".

>>ceejay+S1
Enron's accounting department kind of did, not physically but still.

>>hef198+b6
> not physically but still

That's precisely the point, isn't it?

"We will put an end to X" does not mean "we will physically blow up X". Pretending Biden had an "oops, we're gonna do a terrorist attack against Russian and German infrastructure and I said it out loud at a press conference!" moment and that there's no other legitimate explanation for the statement is just goofy.

>>ceejay+v4
Nobody uses that rhetorical construct in regard to physical entities. Your anologies are disingenuous.

>>ceejay+F6
It wasn't an oops moment, it was scripted. Watch the video carefully. He consulted his notes before saying it. This public announcement removed the requirement to notify Congress. Genius imo.

The other tell is that in the follow-up, Biden was pressured to explain what he meant but he refused to comment. Sanctions could have been mentioned here without repercussions but they weren't.

>>swader+69
Governor Abbott is not a physical entity? I suspect this is news to him.

>>ceejay+Lc
You quoted "governor Abbott's attacks". Are you seriously trying to suggest a group threatened the governor himself? You're working too hard on this angle.

>>swader+(OP)
>"There will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."

Conveniently for Russia, Nord Stream 2 still exists. Only one of its two pipes had exploded. Everyone forgets about it.