Tea at Trianon: What Germany Won’t Admit About Nord Stream

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

What Germany Won’t Admit About Nord Stream – And Why It Matters

From Amuse on X:

The explosion that shattered the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022 was more than an act of economic and geopolitical warfare—it was a test of Germany’s sovereignty, one that Berlin has failed spectacularly. The silence emanating from the German government in the aftermath of what was undeniably an attack on critical infrastructure is more revealing than any words Chancellor Olaf Scholz might have uttered. Despite mounting evidence pointing toward a pro-Ukrainian operation, and amid revelations that some Western intelligence services were at the very least aware of an impending attack, Germany has chosen not only to suppress discussion but to actively obstruct its own legislators from inquiring too deeply. Why? Because the truth, if fully acknowledged and publicly confronted, could fracture NATO unity, shake European support for Ukraine, and reveal Germany’s troubling status as a nation unable—or unwilling—to assert its own interests when they conflict with the broader objectives of the transatlantic alliance. (Read more.)