Welcome to European Tribune. It's gone a bit quiet around here these days, but it's still going.
Display:
Seymour Hersh: "How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline" | MofA |

Seymour Hersh:

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'

by Oui (Oui) on Wed Feb 8th, 2023 at 06:35:26 PM EST


'Sapere aude'
by Oui (Oui) on Wed Feb 8th, 2023 at 06:36:11 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Declaration of Josep Borrell on behalf of the EU on leaks in the Nord Stream gas pipelines

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Wed Feb 8th, 2023 at 09:11:24 PM EST
[ Parent ]

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'

by Oui (Oui) on Wed Feb 8th, 2023 at 09:12:56 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Headline Dutch rightwing news source De Telegraaf

Verhaal omstreden journalist slaat in als een bom

Amerikaanse journalist: "VS zat achter sabotage pijpleiding Nord Stream"

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?

Frontpage paper version highlights ...

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.



'Sapere aude'
by Oui (Oui) on Thu Feb 9th, 2023 at 08:43:58 PM EST
[ Parent ]


'Sapere aude'
by Oui (Oui) on Wed Feb 15th, 2023 at 01:07:17 AM EST
[ Parent ]
by Oui (Oui) on Wed Feb 8th, 2023 at 09:14:13 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Nothing unusual as this is done more often during naval exercises and I believe the preparation mounting explosives was done weeks/months  earlier.

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.

First underwater images of the damage to Nord Stream 1 | NDR - Oct. 18, 2022 |

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Thu Feb 9th, 2023 at 07:31:27 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Display:

Occasional Series