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Seymour Hersh: "How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline" | MofA | Seymour Hersh: How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline 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 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. 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. But it has since become more and more obvious that the U.S. was responsible for the enormous economic damage to Germany that its action has caused. The gloating by Sec State Antony Blinken and his deputy Victoria Nuland is just too too obvious. It is a"tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come" said Blinken and Nuland, in a Congress hearing, was "very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal." Most Germans, if not their pliant government, have drawn their conclusions from that.
Seymour Hersh:
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 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.
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.
But it has since become more and more obvious that the U.S. was responsible for the enormous economic damage to Germany that its action has caused.
The gloating by Sec State Antony Blinken and his deputy Victoria Nuland is just too too obvious. It is a"tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come" said Blinken and Nuland, in a Congress hearing, was "very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal."
Most Germans, if not their pliant government, have drawn their conclusions from that.
Nord Stream Whodunnit UPDATE | Oct. 31, 2022 | 'Sapere aude'
At a Senate hearing, top US diplomat Victoria Nuland celebrated the Nord Stream 2 pipeline bombing: "Senator Cruz, like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea." pic.twitter.com/KS5OM4N165— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) January 27, 2023
At a Senate hearing, top US diplomat Victoria Nuland celebrated the Nord Stream 2 pipeline bombing: "Senator Cruz, like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea." pic.twitter.com/KS5OM4N165
#Nordstream sabotage acts appear to be an attempt to further destabilize energy supply to EU.We need an urgent and thorough investigation.Those responsible will be held fully accountable and made to pay.Our efforts to diversify energy supply away from Russian gas continue.— Charles Michel (@CharlesMichel) September 27, 2022
#Nordstream sabotage acts appear to be an attempt to further destabilize energy supply to EU.We need an urgent and thorough investigation.Those responsible will be held fully accountable and made to pay.Our efforts to diversify energy supply away from Russian gas continue.
Declaration of Josep Borrell on behalf of the EU on leaks in the Nord Stream gas pipelines 'Sapere aude'
President Biden called the Nord Stream pipeline leaks a "deliberate act of sabotage" and accused Russia and Vladimir Putin of "pumping out disinformation and lies." [_link]— CNN (@CNN) September 30, 2022
President Biden called the Nord Stream pipeline leaks a "deliberate act of sabotage" and accused Russia and Vladimir Putin of "pumping out disinformation and lies." [_link]
White House says blog about Nord Stream blast is 'utterly false' | The National |
US investigative journalist claims President Biden ordered attack on Russian gas pipeline 'Sapere aude'
Headline Dutch rightwing news source De Telegraaf Verhaal omstreden journalist slaat in als een bom Amerikaanse journalist: "VS zat achter sabotage pijpleiding Nord Stream"
Verhaal omstreden journalist slaat in als een bom
Amerikaanse journalist: "VS zat achter sabotage pijpleiding Nord Stream"
Wie blies oliepijplijn Nord Stream 1 en 2 op? Het was Amerika, stelt de bekende Amerikaanse journalist Seymour Hersh op basis van één anonieme bron. [_link]— De Telegraaf (@telegraaf) February 9, 2023
Wie blies oliepijplijn Nord Stream 1 en 2 op? Het was Amerika, stelt de bekende Amerikaanse journalist Seymour Hersh op basis van één anonieme bron. [_link]
Translation: Who blew up oil pipeline Nord Stream 1 and 2? It was America, says the well-known American journalist Seymour Hersh based on one anonymous source. Nord Stream Conspiracy Theories: Did America Blow Up Oil Pipeline?
Nord Stream Conspiracy Theories: Did America Blow Up Oil Pipeline?
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Story controversial journalist hits home American journalist: "US was behind sabotage pipeline Nord Stream" 😡 History of controversial newspaper De Telegraaf -- Amsterdam. De Telegraaf was banned after World War II for collaboration with the Nazis, but the ban was lifted in 1949. Owing to its polemic right-wing editorial policy the paper is often accused of campaign journalism. It is mainly read by low earners and the middle class.
American journalist: "US was behind sabotage pipeline Nord Stream"
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History of controversial newspaper De Telegraaf -- Amsterdam.
De Telegraaf was banned after World War II for collaboration with the Nazis, but the ban was lifted in 1949. Owing to its polemic right-wing editorial policy the paper is often accused of campaign journalism. It is mainly read by low earners and the middle class.
#Opinion: Why hasn't the all-mighty US propaganda machine made any powerful case to overturn the accusation - US was behind Nord Stream pipelines sabotage? When US failed to disapprove it, it signals White House could really be a major suspect.[_link]— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) February 13, 2023
#Opinion: Why hasn't the all-mighty US propaganda machine made any powerful case to overturn the accusation - US was behind Nord Stream pipelines sabotage? When US failed to disapprove it, it signals White House could really be a major suspect.[_link]
US Navy zeigt Flagge in der östlichen Ostsee | NDR - Aug. 3, 2022 | The USS Kearsarge, a gigantic combat ship for amphibious operations, rushes past them at 17 knots, followed by the dock landing ship USS Arlington. The "Gunston Hall" had already passed here on Sunday. A total of 4,000 US soldiers, helicopter pilots, marines, doctors and strategists are on their way east. At around 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning, the formation had already passed the Danish island of Bornholm, when the Americans switched off their automatic ship identification systems (AIS) and could no longer be located without further ado.
The USS Kearsarge, a gigantic combat ship for amphibious operations, rushes past them at 17 knots, followed by the dock landing ship USS Arlington. The "Gunston Hall" had already passed here on Sunday.
A total of 4,000 US soldiers, helicopter pilots, marines, doctors and strategists are on their way east. At around 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning, the formation had already passed the Danish island of Bornholm, when the Americans switched off their automatic ship identification systems (AIS) and could no longer be located without further ado.
First underwater images of the damage to Nord Stream 1 | NDR - Oct. 18, 2022 | 'Sapere aude'
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