A top U.S. official stated categorically in an interview Tuesday evening that the United States was not behind the attack on two Russian pipelines late last month.
The interview comes after three lines in Russia&#8217;s Nord Stream natural gas pipeline system <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nord-stream-pipelines-see-unprecedented-damage-after-cia-warned-german-government-of-sabotage">saw</a> “unprecedented” damage last Monday after the CIA had recently warned that someone might try to sabotage the pipeline amid Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s war in Ukraine.
John Kirby, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, told Fox News host Bret Baier that the U.S. &#8220;had nothing to do with it&#8221; when pressed on the matter by Baier.
&#8220;That&#8217;s just Russian propaganda and disinformation,&#8221; Kirby claimed. &#8220;Now, we know it was an act of sabotage, but there&#8217;s an investigation going on right now. I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re going to get into credentialing that in terms of who was responsible. We&#8217;re going to let the investigators take a look at that. But, clearly, this was an act of sabotage.&#8221;
Baier pressed Kirby again on the matter after playing a clip of Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying that the destruction of the pipeline was &#8220;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.&#8221;
Kirby once again doubled-down in his response, claiming that the Biden administration had nothing to do with the attack.
&#8220;Not to belabor this, but for the people who look at this and say, &#8216;why would Russia attack its own pipeline that creates leverage over Europe and perhaps the West,&#8217; what do you say to them?&#8221; Baier asked.
&#8220;Again, I can&#8217;t speak to specific accountability for this act of sabotage,&#8221; Kirby responded. &#8220;I can just assure you the United States had nothing to do with it, of course. That&#8217;s just Russian propaganda. And look, we&#8217;re — again, without — without crediting it to anybody right now, what I would say is, just look at what Russia has done in the past since the last seven months of this war and when it began, and that is to weaponize energy.&#8221;
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Bret Baier grills the National Security Council&#39;s John Kirby over whether the US or a proxy had anything to do with the Nord Stream pipeline attack:
&quot;The United States had nothing to do with it. That&#39;s just Russian propaganda and disinformation.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/8LGK6sbwpN">pic.twitter.com/8LGK6sbwpN</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1577425829533044740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a remarkable turn of events, former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/trump-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Donald J. Trump</a> offered to &#8220;head up [a] group&#8221; of peace negotiators between <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war">Russia and Ukraine</a> on Wednesday morning, cautioning that the United States must act prudently in the wake of the suspected sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
President Joe Biden, who claims he is committed to ending the war, should accept Trump&#8217;s suggestion for the good of Europe, America, and the world. Of course, we don&#8217;t expect him to actually do so, but Trump&#8217;s latest advice is still valuable.
&#8220;U.S. &#8216;Leadership&#8217; should remain &#8216;cool, calm, and dry&#8217; on the SABOTAGE of the Nord Stream Pipelines,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109075693097650167" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Truth Social. &#8220;This is a big event that should not entail a big solution, at least not yet.&#8221;
On Tuesday, the Nord Stream pipelines began leaking millions of cubic meters of natural gas into the ocean. The evidence so far suggests that it was sabotaged — by who and what country remains unclear.
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-fuels-suspicion-u-s-behind-nord-stream-sabotage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">monologue</a> Tuesday night, Fox News&#8217;s Tucker Carlson put forth several reasons that the Biden administration possibly could have committed the act: First, Biden himself suggested that he would take out the pipelines. Second, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre suggested that it would allow the world to transition to green energy. And third, it provides cover to escalate the war with Russia by blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin.
As of now, that is all speculation. What is clear is that at this time, Biden is not calling for peace. On the contrary, he is willing to support the war however long it takes to defeat Putin.
Only Trump is demanding that the war end through negotiations.
&#8220;The Russia/Ukraine catastrophe should NEVER have happened, and would definitely not have happened if I were President,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109075693097650167" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a> on his Truth Social platform. &#8220;Do not make matters worse with the pipeline blowup. Be strategic, be smart (brilliant!), get a negotiated deal done NOW. Both sides need and want it. The entire World is at stake. I will head up group???&#8221;
It is easy to dismiss the message as a banal social media post, but it is a pretty extraordinary message when you think about it. A former president of the U.S. is using his platform to call for world peace, even offering to help his 2020 political opponent.
Critics of course would laugh at the very idea of Trump leading negotiations — they still think he is a maniac. Those critics either forget or ignore the relative peace during his administration. Trump <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcQRWgxCYdE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">started</a> no new wars, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-secures-another-peace-deal-between-israel-and-an-arab-nation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crafted</a> historic deals in the Middle East, and essentially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/us-immediately-withdraw-all-troops-syria-joseph-curl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defeated</a> ISIS.
Putin, it should be remembered, acted aggressively against Ukraine under former President Barack Obama&#8217;s term, neglected to do so while Trump was in office, and then restarted his hostility shortly after Biden was inaugurated.
According to some reports, Biden&#8217;s incompetence in handling Afghanistan was the turning point for Putin&#8217;s decision to invade Ukraine. After seeing how feckless the new administration acted, Putin was emboldened, <a href="https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article258426478.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to folks like Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Yet Trump proved he was not afraid to use force when necessary, never revealed his plans fully, and even successfully pressured NATO countries to pay more of their share for defense measures. In other words, it isn&#8217;t a stretch to say that Putin feared Trump, based on his actions as president.
Now, it seems obvious that Putin doesn&#8217;t fear Biden at all. He invaded Ukraine after months of being warned not to engage in conflict.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-sure-sounds-like-biden-wants-world-war-over-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observed</a> last week, we have now had seven months of sanctions and boycotts on Russia while billions of U.S. dollars and military aid flood Ukraine. In turn, Russia has shown zero inclination to retreat.
But now, as pointed out by Trump, the war is on the precipice of escalating quickly. It is clear that Biden&#8217;s strategy has not been working. He should be looking for all possible avenues to peace. It would be an incredible sign of reconciliation if Biden actually tapped Trump for the job.
Trump, yet again, stands practically alone calling for a different course of action. Despite his record of success, Trump will more likely than not be ignored. It seems that Biden — as well as the establishments of both political parties in D.C. — want the war to continue.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Hilarity ensued on social media after White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre issued another malapropism, this time confusing the Nord Stream Pipeline in Europe, a source of international controversy, with the department store Nordstrom.
Jean-Pierre was asked at the White House press briefing on Tuesday about the energy crisis facing the United Kingdom and whether the United States could offer any assistance to help the UK lower energy costs domestically.
“So you’ve heard us say this: that what we see Russia’s doing, we&#8217;ve been very clear about this, is that they&#8217;re using energy, they&#8217;re weaponizing energy. And it’s choosing to — one of the things that has been out there, they shut down the pipeline of Nordstrom 1,” Jean-Pierre replied.
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Jean-Pierre refers to the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline as the “Nordstrom” pipeline <a href="https://t.co/CRXiQYSjQK">pic.twitter.com/CRXiQYSjQK</a>
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Social media mocked Jean-Pierre’s mix-up:
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Not sure what’s worse, that Karine Jean Pierre just called it The NORDSTROM Pipeline, or that Biden yelled at his TV, “no dummy it’s Bloomingdales.”
&mdash; Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmyfailla/status/1567195407763079169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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This was not a slip of the tongue.
Biden gave it to Putin as a gift from Nordstrom’s.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BidenPutinPipeline?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BidenPutinPipeline</a> <a href="https://t.co/Asw2RyvBEe">https://t.co/Asw2RyvBEe</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1567229145930776579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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. <a href="https://twitter.com/Nordstrom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Nordstrom</a> psyched to learn its retail portfolio also includes a pipeline!
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&mdash; Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaCrowley/status/1567231721669623808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Don’t look now. Russia is attacking Nordstrom. Look out Macy’s! <a href="https://t.co/Y3zVef4XYj">https://t.co/Y3zVef4XYj</a>
&mdash; Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisStigall/status/1567196013819052034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Nord Stream 1 pipeline, opened in 2011, runs approximately 750 miles under the Baltic Sea from an area near St. Petersburg to north-eastern Germany. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline runs parallel to Nord Stream 1, but its construction was interrupted when Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
In February 2021, Gazprom, a majority-state owned Russian energy company, resumed laying the pipeline on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The company had temporarily halted laying the pipeline after former President Trump had threatened sanctions.
President Biden had a different position than Trump. Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/nord-stream-sanction-biden-russia-f6db2ae3-2c89-4343-b326-9f399d674077.html">reported</a> in May 2021, “The State Department will also acknowledge that the corporate entity in charge of the project (Nord Stream 2 AG) and its CEO (Putin crony and former East German intelligence officer Matthias Warnig) are engaged in sanctionable activities. However, the State Department will waive the applications of those sanctions, citing U.S. national interests.”
“If true, President Biden just delivered a huge victory to Vladimir Putin, who will now have a stranglehold over Europe’s natural gas supplies,” Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=38849EEF-2A51-4B4F-8EF0-A71D88532FB1">charged</a>. “Then-candidate Biden promised to be tough on Russia, but it is increasingly clear that was just campaign rhetoric. There is absolutely no excuse for giving Putin more leverage over our allies and partners, including Ukraine. It is dangerous, naïve, deceitful, and weak.”
Last week, Gazprom <a href="https://t.me/s/gazprom">said</a> it would not restart the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany, claiming oil leaks were found. “Until the equipment malfunctions are corrected, gas transport to the Nord Stream gas pipeline is completely stopped,” Gazprom said.
“The EU has been scrambling to lessen its dependence on Russian gas, which accounted for 40 percent of imports last year,” Politico <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/gazprom-announces-nord-stream-stoppage/">reported</a>.

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