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New BBC Report Insinuates Russia Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline
Summit News ^ | 05/03/2023 | Steve Watson

Posted on 05/03/2023 8:08:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A new BBC report has pointed to ‘evidence’ in a documentary that Russian navy ships were stationed near the site of the blast that destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline three months before it happened, in a clear insinuation that it was Russia that blew up its own pipeline.

The report states that “Russian ships able to perform underwater operations were present near to where explosions later took place on the Nord Stream pipelines, according to an investigative documentary.”

“The vessels were reportedly located using intercepted Russian navy communications,” it adds.

The BBC says that the “suspicious Russian ship movements in the run-up to the Nord Stream blasts,” were reported by four Nordic public broadcasters and an accompanying English-language podcast Cold Front.

It also claims that “Denmark’s Defence Command has confirmed a separate report that a Danish patrol boat called Nymfen took 26 photos of a Russian submarine-rescue ship in the area days before the explosions.”

Yes, we’re back to this nonsense:

So we're back to this nonsense now where the BBC is now claiming Russia blew up its own pipeline. pic.twitter.com/1Jmcq9IcR3 — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 3, 2023

The claim that Russia would purposefully sabotage it’s own pipeline fly in the face of reason, given that the country was profiting massively from the supply of natural gas to almost the entirely of Europe, and in turn ensuring a relatively harmonious relationship with those countries.

The claims also come following revelations by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh concerning indications that the U.S. was directly involved in the destruction of the pipeline.

Earlier this year, Hersh published a report asserting that the pipelines were destroyed by the U.S. as part of a covert operation which was organised with the aid of the Norwegian government, Norwegian Secret Service and Navy.

According to Hersh’s sources, the explosives were planted in June 2022 by US Navy divers under the guise of the BALTOPS 22 NATO exercise and were detonated three months later with a remote signal sent by a sonar buoy.

Hersh also claimed that Joe Biden made the decision to destroy Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines because because he was unhappy with the level of support provided by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, and he saw being a war president as giving him a better chance at re-election.

“I’m Telling You, He Did It”: Seymour Hersh Blames Biden For Nord Stream Attack

Seymour Hersh makes new Nord Stream sabotage claim

The assertion dovetails with that of a former Pentagon advisor who said the most likely culprits behind the Nord Stream pipeline blasts are the United States and Britain, and that the attack was carried out to prevent Germany from bailing on the war in Ukraine.

Former Pentagon Advisor Says US Likely Attacked Nord Stream Pipelines to Isolate Germany

According to a report by German magazine Der Spiegel, the CIA warned Berlin about a potential attack on gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea weeks before the explosions.

Hersh was swiftly labelled a ‘dangerous conspiracy theorist’ by the legacy media and censored by big tech.

Facebook Censors Seymour Hersh’s Article About US Involvement in Nord Stream Pipeline Attack

Related:

Video: Trump Says “It wasn’t Russia” Who Blew Up The Nord Stream Pipeline

Putin Says Nord Stream Attack Must Have Been Carried Out by a State

Video: ‘Only Pipeline Attack Explanation Allowed Is The One The Regime Wants You To Believe’

China Demands US “Explain Itself to the World” Over Nord Stream Attack Story

Russia Says NY Times Report on Nord Stream Attack is Deliberate Disinformation

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: gazprom; insidejob; lol; nordstream; ofcoursetheydid; pipeline; propaganda; putin; russia; sabotage; seymourhersh
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1 posted on 05/03/2023 8:08:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s just plain dumb.


2 posted on 05/03/2023 8:10:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll go with the analysis provided by Monkey Werx, thank you very much.


3 posted on 05/03/2023 8:12:14 AM PDT by fretzer
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To: SeekAndFind
Anyone believes this after Seymour Hersh detailed how we blew up the pipeline is a moron.

The Biden regime and British are lying to their own citizens and the world.

4 posted on 05/03/2023 8:12:37 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: SeekAndFind

It is from the BBC... the snottier version of PBS. What do you expect?


5 posted on 05/03/2023 8:13:10 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Dumb is being charitable. It’s much worse, they know Russia didn’t blow up their own pipeline


6 posted on 05/03/2023 8:13:31 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Sacajaweau

That is some serious 4d chess.


7 posted on 05/03/2023 8:16:08 AM PDT by pas
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To: SeekAndFind
In the immediate aftermath of the attack someone on Twitter pointed out a US navy warship was parked at the blast site in the days preceding the blast. I looked up a marine ship tracking website I had used on occasion and quickly discovered that yes, the USS Kearsage was parked above the attack site up until about 48 hours before the blasts went off. The Kearsage is an amphibious assault ship that has the kind of deep well, equipment and crew used for SEAL teams to conduct just this kind of attack. And I found news reports that it was doing "training" in just such activities in the Baltic in the weeks prior to the attack.

So it's nice to have the confirmation from that Hersh fellow that the US is responsible for the Nordstream attacks, but it was already obvious to anyone willing to do a little sleuthing of their own. These pathetic propaganda efforts to claim Russia cut off their own income and diplomatic leverage by destroying the pipelines remain utterly stupid and senseless.

8 posted on 05/03/2023 8:16:17 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Sacajaweau

except we have data and pictures of US ships and planes in the area. So funny, they are doing everything they can to avoid the fact the US blew the pipeline


9 posted on 05/03/2023 8:16:45 AM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: SeekAndFind
“Russians.”


10 posted on 05/03/2023 8:16:57 AM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Correction: the correct spelling of the ship responsible is USS Kearsarge.


11 posted on 05/03/2023 8:18:18 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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I suppose anything is possible but pretty unlikely. Just because someone thinks America blew up the pipeline doesn’t automatically mean they support Putin.


12 posted on 05/03/2023 8:18:42 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: SeekAndFind

You believe everything you are told?


13 posted on 05/03/2023 8:20:14 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: SeekAndFind

State-funded News says what?


14 posted on 05/03/2023 8:22:22 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: SeekAndFind

> it was Russia that blew up its own pipeline <

This claim is just as ridiculous as saying the Japanese planes that bombed Pearl Harbor were actually American planes in disguise.

But I guess some people will believe anything, for their own reasons.


15 posted on 05/03/2023 8:22:23 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The latest from the MI6 mouthpiece.


16 posted on 05/03/2023 8:23:08 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: escapefromboston

Sux months ago, the narrative shills would pile on to correct you. But some have faded, realizing their “handle” has zero credibility, for some, the checks have probably stopped. Some are busy creating new handles.


17 posted on 05/03/2023 8:24:42 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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18 posted on 05/03/2023 8:25:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Leaning Right

“This claim is just as ridiculous as saying the Japanese planes that bombed Pearl Harbor were actually American planes in disguise.”

They weren’t? But Art Bell proved it.


19 posted on 05/03/2023 8:26:06 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Kazan

this is just as believable as Hersh’s book

lots of circumstantial evidence on both sides ... of course, only the Russians shills & apologists can’t see that


20 posted on 05/03/2023 8:27:05 AM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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