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originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: Stu112
Because Putin is deluded?
Maybe?
The US and UK have gained increasing fuel costs and nothing else.
BP made a profit of $3.3 billion a year earlier and achieved a 14-year high of $8.45 billion in the second quarter of 2022
www.reuters.com...
Hang on a minute the Russians are claiming we actually had a ship whose prop shaft did not break, a submarine whose captain did not drive it aground on a sand bank and to top it all WE blew up the Nord stream gas pipeline.
Revelations/Proofs: theconservativetreehouse.com... bout-it-repeatedly/#more-243077
Details Surface of Biden Administration Deliberately Destroying Nord Stream Pipeline, Then Lying About It Repeatedly
One of the things about BIG lies is the sheer weight they create, and the effort needed to maintain them.
Everyone of reasonably intelligent disposition knew the Russians did not blow up their own Nord Stream gas pipeline last year; they had no motive to do so.
All indications were always that the U.S. government conducted the operation and then obfuscated blame toward Russia.