James Melville wrote that Germany will probably have to buy more natural gas from the United States at five times the price because Nord Stream has been damaged.

hedged in the source

Germany predicted higher US gas purchases by Germany due to Nord Stream damage Russia

No event time was recorded for this claim — the text gave nothing to anchor it to, and a guessed date would be worse than none.

Standing

lens: Evidence-weighted Structural

4.7% belief under Evidence-weighted · -3.00 log-odds · derived, never stored

Every contribution to this claim's belief under **Evidence-weighted**. Starting point: the floor (-3 log-odds — an unsupported claim starts near zero, not at "maybe"). Contributions sum to +0.00; the result is -3.00 log-odds = 4.7%.
Direction	What it rests on	Base	Leg	CQ factor	Contribution
Nothing has been counted for or against this claim. It sits at the floor — untested, which is not the same as refuted.

0 evidentiary legs 1 source 0 challenges asserted

Nothing supports or challenges this claim yet — untested, which is not the same as refuted.

Voices are counted, never weighed. How many people say a thing is structure worth seeing; it is not, by itself, a reason to believe it.

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Origin: extracted from Video of Biden Saying He’d ‘End’ Nord Stream Resurfaces After Pipeline Leak · 2026-07-20 06:18