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US Bombed Russia's Nord Stream Gas Pipeline After Months-Long Planning by White House - Seymour Hersh
International Business Times ^ | February 8, 2023 | Jacob J

Posted on 02/08/2023 8:43:48 AM PST by Golden Eagle

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has made the sensational claim that the United States was behind the bombing of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline in September last year.

Writing in his blog on Substack on Wednesday, Hersh said US Navy divers planted explosives at the pipelines in June last year, under the guise of BALTOPS 22 NATO exercise. The article says that the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline was the culmination of months-long planning and preparations by the US. President Joe Biden and all his top leadership team participated in a series of top secret discussions in the lead-up to the act.

"Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning," Hersh wrote in his blog.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: actofwar; germany; hamilton68; hersh; icbmsinbound; ministryoftruth; nato; neoconsrage; newyorkslimes; nordstream; nordstrom; nuland; officiallydenied; plausible; russia; sabotage; seymourhersh; warmachineinaction
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To: Shadow44

The question is, why are they now doing an official intentional leak of the story?


All part of the Biden plan to:
destroy America;
divide the West;
cause allies to be hesitant toward the US;
stir up controversy;
gain readership;
reinvigorate a washed up career.


21 posted on 02/08/2023 9:09:39 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Golden Eagle

“...Europe might eventually see the US much like the Arab world now does and want us out of there, despite our attempts “to help.”

.....

It seems to me the only people hurt by this were the Germans and other EU countries, who (unless the pipeline is repaired) have no option now of going back to cheaper gas. It will make their heavy industries less competitive in world markets and raise all energy costs.

If it was intended to provoke Russia, it wasn’t successful. But it certainly will affect our relations with Europe, for a long time. And bragging about it now will just piss the neighbors off.


22 posted on 02/08/2023 9:11:57 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: Golden Eagle

Boy, I guess Germany really doesn’t mind being treated like some senile old fool’s little bitch.


23 posted on 02/08/2023 9:12:10 AM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: ModelBreaker

24 posted on 02/08/2023 9:16:16 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: Mark17

ping


25 posted on 02/08/2023 9:18:33 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Boogieman

And technically was an ACT OF WAR AGAINST GERMANY.”
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Typing it in all caps still won’t make the Germans care.
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True dat.


26 posted on 02/08/2023 9:19:42 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: Golden Eagle
It was a little hard to believe Russia would choose to blow up their own pipelines. IT was a stretch. If Russia wanted to cut off natural gas to Europe they could reduce the pressure so only enough went through to keep the line from freezing.

Why blow it up?

Then again, 51 American 'intelligence' thugs are publishing a letter saying if we don't get out of Ukraine soon, Putin said he would start blowing up buildings in Moscow.

27 posted on 02/08/2023 9:21:01 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: dead
Boy, I guess Germany really doesn’t mind being treated like some senile old fool’s little bitch.

Germans are, at their heart, true conformists. Its not a bad thing, usually. Like Japanese, its why their streets are (mostly) clean and they run an efficient economy.

Unfortunately, if those at the top pursue idiotic, asinine, utopian schemes (which seems to happen every couple generations), die Deutschen Schafe can't help but follow along

28 posted on 02/08/2023 9:21:42 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: GOPJ

Were these the same “Intelligence” folks who said that the Hunter laptop was disinformation.


29 posted on 02/08/2023 9:29:28 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Golden Eagle

I’m old enough to remember when the “seriousness of the charge” was sufficient to get congress involved.


30 posted on 02/08/2023 9:36:49 AM PST by 3RIVRS
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To: Golden Eagle
But they didn't bomb the Nordstrom pipeline!

Karinge Jean-Pierre assured us of that fact.

31 posted on 02/08/2023 9:39:40 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (DemonRatz to Biden: You've outlived your uselessness. Buh-Bye!)
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To: GOPJ

LOL!


32 posted on 02/08/2023 9:40:50 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (DemonRatz to Biden: You've outlived your uselessness. Buh-Bye!)
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To: Golden Eagle

Biden’s memoir book title:

“How to provoke WW3 for fun and profit”


33 posted on 02/08/2023 9:44:20 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Shadow44

The CIA was behind this pipeline destruction and now will pin this on BiteMe as he is no longer one of their useful idiots—if true. I suspect it is probably true because the pipelines destruction hurt Russia, Germany and Europe but not the US but it allowed the US to push it was Russia and keep the war going.

This is a filthy dirty war for all involved.


34 posted on 02/08/2023 9:56:35 AM PST by sarge83
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To: Golden Eagle

After seeing what the US government has done to censor the internet and shut down speech from the FBI to DHS to even the State Department as noted by Elon Musk this week why should I trust any denials of Hersh’s claim coming out of Washington.


35 posted on 02/08/2023 10:06:07 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Shadow44

“why are they now doing an official intentional leak of the story?”

They want Biden not to run in 2024. The only questions are how bad the leaks will have to get before Biden drops out and what leak will be the one that finish him off? Will it be corruption, sex, or incompetence?


36 posted on 02/08/2023 10:10:59 AM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Of course we did. To make sure Germany had no choice but us for utillities.


37 posted on 02/08/2023 10:12:59 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: Golden Eagle
Seymour Hersh? The same nutjob that said US troops sexually assaulted boys in Iraq?

Some of Hersh's speeches concerning the Iraq War have described violent incidents involving U.S. troops in Iraq. In July 2004, during the height of the Abu Ghraib scandal, he alleged that American troops sexually assaulted young boys:

Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children, in cases that have been recorded, the boys were sodomized, with the cameras rolling, and the worst above all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking. That your government has. They're in total terror it's going to come out.

38 posted on 02/08/2023 10:14:00 AM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Nextrush

You just started distrusting the US government this week?


39 posted on 02/08/2023 10:16:02 AM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Poland’s geography is very unfortunate.

As I have said before, the only interesting question about Europe is where the border between Germany and Russia lies. Stalingrad was too far East. Torgau is too far West.

The Poles - whom Winston Churchill called both “gallant” and “wretched” - already dragged the world into war over this question in 1939. Britain then, like “NATO” now, issued a guarantee that they have no possibility of fulfilling.

As Ukraine is learning right now, Poland should have learned in 1939-1945 - don’t place the lives of your people in the hands of “the West”.


40 posted on 02/08/2023 10:28:00 AM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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