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The Nord Stream Investigation That’s Splintering Europe Over Ukraine
The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 10th, 2025 | By Bojan Pancevski

Posted on 11/10/2025 2:11:18 PM PST by Mariner

BERLIN—For three years, a crack team of detectives gathered each weekday morning around a whiteboard at the German Federal Police headquarters in Potsdam, near Berlin. Now their investigation into who was behind the greatest act of sabotage in modern history—the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines—is threatening to splinter support for Ukraine, the country they hold responsible.

Poland already has refused to extradite one of the suspects to stand trial in Germany. It instead views him a hero for destroying a vital source of revenue for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war machine. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has long questioned Germany’s dependence on Russian energy, ridiculed the investigation. The problem isn’t that the pipeline was blown up, he said. The “problem is that it was built.”

At home, the opposition AfD party has seized on public anger with how the bombings cemented high energy prices with no relief in sight. It is now campaigning to cut aid to Kyiv, a vital plank in the West’s support for Ukraine.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidencrimefamily; polandstillsucks; trumpswar
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Yep, that's a real split of real interests.

And AfD will drive Merz out of office over it.

1 posted on 11/10/2025 2:11:18 PM PST by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Joe Biden has entered the chat 💬💬💬

Oh wait...

Joe Biden has entered a nap 😴😴😴😴


2 posted on 11/10/2025 2:15:06 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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“German police, prosecutors and other people familiar with the intricacies of the case instead developed what they said is a clear picture of how an elite Ukrainian military unit carried out the attacks under the direct supervision of Ukraine’s then-supreme commander, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhniy.”


3 posted on 11/10/2025 2:15:13 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

“It’s Done”


4 posted on 11/10/2025 2:15:25 PM PST by algore
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“By tracking boat rental companies, phones and license plates, the Potsdam team laid the groundwork for German authorities to issue arrest warrants for three soldiers from the special Ukrainian military unit and four veteran deep-sea divers, people familiar with the case said. The saboteurs’ goal was to cut both Russia’s oil revenues and its economic ties with Germany, they said.”


5 posted on 11/10/2025 2:16:54 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Nuland and Sullivan shenanigans.


6 posted on 11/10/2025 2:17:11 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: Mariner

What a bunch of buddy humpers those EuroFags are.


7 posted on 11/10/2025 2:23:40 PM PST by OldHarbor
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I thought it was this guy who did it.

Pres. Biden: “If Russia invades...then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”

Reporter: “But how will you do that, exactly, since...the project is in Germany’s control?”

Biden: “I promise you, we will be able to do that.


8 posted on 11/10/2025 2:24:35 PM PST by McGruff
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Either way Germans are waking up the the fact somebody did ‘em wrong, and it shows up in every monthly bill.

They had a good relationship with Russia and steady, low energy bills across all sectors.


9 posted on 11/10/2025 2:29:50 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Agreed. And Germany should go back to using coal plants too. Be buddies with energy exporting countries (i.e. Russia) but put more focus on being energy self-reliant.


10 posted on 11/10/2025 2:35:32 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Gas has gone up 74% since the onset of the war.


11 posted on 11/10/2025 2:44:01 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Thanks for pointing it out, stupidity has no borders.


12 posted on 11/10/2025 2:54:03 PM PST by Saintgermain ( )
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Yeah right, elite military unit of Ukrainians did it???

Biden ordered this done by the US. We were the ones who did it.


13 posted on 11/10/2025 3:12:24 PM PST by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: McGruff

Exactly, we did it.


14 posted on 11/10/2025 3:13:06 PM PST by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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And they pissed it all away banking a loser that not only lowered their way of life but is still costing them to this day in money and materials.

Money which they will NEVER get back.


15 posted on 11/10/2025 3:14:15 PM PST by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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Or you talking about Zelensky or Harris as the loser? Or both?


16 posted on 11/10/2025 3:15:36 PM PST by Polanski
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Ukraine.


17 posted on 11/10/2025 3:22:23 PM PST by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: Mariner

I use Tums.


18 posted on 11/10/2025 4:12:07 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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There is ZERO percent chance Ukraine blew it up. There are only a few countries in the world with the ability to do so. Funny, these are the same people that first claimed Russia blew up their own pipeline. Give me a break.


19 posted on 11/10/2025 4:14:04 PM PST by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: SaveFerris

Joe Biden’s auto-Biden has entered the chat.


20 posted on 11/10/2025 4:33:53 PM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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