US President Joe Biden, who is now 79 years old, has another "gaffe" situation. According to the news of the Global Network on February 9, German Chancellor Scholz recently visited the United States. At the joint press conference after the end of the talks between the United States and Germany, US President Biden suddenly said nonsense and almost made the scene out of control.
In response to a reporter's question, Biden first said that if Germany ...
Realizing the error in the formulation, Biden corrected that if Russia "invaded" Ukraine, the Nord Stream-2 project would be a thing of the past.
It is understood that the Nord Stream-2 natural gas pipeline project is a key cooperation content between Russia and Germany, and the pipeline was built in 2018 and completed in September 2021. At the beginning of the project, Russia and Germany deliberately bypassed Ukraine and diverted to the Baltic Sea to Germany. After the project is ventilated, an additional 55 billion cubic meters of gas will be transferred to Germany every year.
As a core european country, about half of Germany's natural gas is supplied by Russia, and Russian-German gas cooperation maintains Germany's lifeline. The Russian side pointed out to the point that the United States frequently makes a fuss about Russian-German natural gas cooperation, with the intention of peddling more expensive natural gas in the United States.
The United States, which already has the military lifeblood of Europe, is still trying to grasp the energy lifeblood of Europe. Biden's "sword dance" on the Nord Stream-2 project is likely to be aimed not primarily at Russia, but "with German intent." After the interruption of Russian-German natural gas cooperation, whether it is buying US natural gas at a high price or expanding the scale of gas procurement in the Middle East in the south, Germany will be forced to follow the United States more "dance".
This makes it imperative that Germany be cautious about the Nord Stream-2 project, even for energy diversification reasons. German Chancellor Schoerz did not respond to Biden's remarks about nord stream-2 at a news conference in the United States. Scholz, known for his silence and calmness, emphasized the unity of the West on the one hand, and refused to give a specific response to the Russian sanctions on the other hand.
In the situation in Ukraine, France and Germany, which are also the core countries of Europe, have shown a full tacit understanding. French President Emmanuel Macron's first visit to Moscow follows his visit to Kiev and will meet with Scholz after his return to Berlin. Scholz will also visit Russia and Ukraine on February 15 and 16 after completing his visit to the United States.
According to reports, on February 10, representatives of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine will hold the second "Normandy model talks" since 2022 on the implementation of the new Minsk agreement. The Normandy model talks were created by the four countries in 2014 and successfully mediated the Crisis in Ukraine in 2015. Abiding by the relevant contents of the new Minsk agreement is also the principle of reconciliation that China has long advocated.
And an unacceptable but ironic fact is that in the situation in Ukraine, which has been ignited by the United States again, Ukraine is the country with the least say. A large number of Ukrainian parliamentarians held high the us-Britain flag in the parliamentary discussions and declared that they would show the support of the United States and Britain for Ukraine. But such an open "proxy act" just makes the Ukrainian people in suffering even more miserable.
The United States, Russia, Germany, and France are the main participants in the direction of the situation in Ukraine, and due to historical reasons, Germany and France, which hope for a peaceful settlement of the situation in Ukraine, still lack enough voice in European defense. The United States, a country outside the region, dominates the overall defense of Europe and is "painstakingly" provoking a sense of distrust between Russia and Europe.
A State Department spokesman claimed on Feb. 3 that the United States had "intelligence" and that Russia was preparing to shoot "fake videos" to create a pretext for "invading Ukraine." Such a repeated scene made the US reporters unconvinced, and directly asked, what about the evidence? The US spokesman once again used "inconvenient disclosure" as a prevarication.
The United States, which is conclusive but unfounded, and which has always clamored for "wolves coming," is overdrawing its credit with lies and is increasingly ushering in a gradually widening rift between Western countries.