Posted on 02/08/2023 11:13:14 AM PST by SmokingJoe
The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now
The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center’s complex is as nondescript as its location—a drab concrete post-World War II structure that has the look of a vocational high school on the west side of Chicago. A coin-operated laundromat and a dance school are across what is now a four-lane road.
The center has been training highly skilled deep-water divers for decades who, once assigned to American military units worldwide, are capable of technical diving to do the good—using C4 explosives to clear harbors and beaches of debris and unexploded ordinance—as well as the bad, like blowing up foreign oil rigs, fouling intake valves for undersea power plants, destroying locks on crucial shipping canals. The Panama City center, which boasts the second largest indoor pool in America, was the perfect place to recruit the best, and most taciturn, graduates of the diving school who successfully did last summer what they had been authorized to do 260 feet under the surface of the Baltic Sea.
(Excerpt) Read more at seymourhersh.substack.com ...
#FAFO
European gas prices are now about 10% higher than 1 year ago
that’s about the same situation as it is here in Alberta
that’s not “sky-high”
you need to relax
there’s no need to be afraid, nobody will be using nukes ... calm down
that’s all just Russian intimidation tactics, trying to play you
If America directly acted against a Russian asset, it’s no longer a proxy war. This is beyond crazy.
You'd have to be a half a retard to believe that anyone other than the U.S. Navy blew up this pipeline.
Of course we did it. We even said we were going to do it.
Europe's gas prices have broken a new record. How high can they go?
You’re absolutely right. And Ukraine is not an official ally. Looks like NATO could invoke Article 5 against us.
Seymour Hersh ping...
You are a paid Soros troll/propagandist for Ukraine?
#7. SmokingJoe… we have a winner! Our political apparatus has been hijacked by corrupt globalist and they know we all know… now we are on the verge of ww3. Because they are all corrupt.
and you are a paid Putin troll/propagandist for Russia?
“This was an ACT OF WAR”
It sure is. It will take some time to set in over there but it will. I always thought it strange that Merkel and Hollande came out NOW and admitted that Minsk II was just a trick to buy time to build up the military in US backed former state of Ukraine.
Putin was not tricked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nca3Z3-9K4c
Powerful people in Germany are going to DEMAND answers to WHY she would do such a foolish thing. The table is now set for Merkel to explain that Germany was BLACKMAILED by horrible American troublemakers.
uh, that’s August 2022, when there were record high prices
today is February 2023
prices are a lot lower today
He was just flying weather balloons and one got away. /s
Ursula von der Leyen
@vonderleyen
EU official
Spoke to
@Statsmin
Frederiksen on the sabotage action #Nordstream.
Paramount to now investigate the incidents, get full clarity on events & why.
Any deliberate disruption of active European energy infrastructure is unacceptable & will lead to the strongest possible response.
https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1574856534064041996
In your court now Ursula von der Leyen.
Europeans look forward to your "strongest possible response".
Seymour Hersh... once a mouthpiece of the USSR, always a mouthpiece.
This reminds me of the book “Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage”, by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew. Whatever your opinion is of Seymour Hersh, this is an incredible story and well written, soon to be at a theatre near you (or on Neflix).
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