Monumental act of industrial sabotage, releasing largest volume of "climate damaging methane" in history, blamed on group of rogue yachtsmen/adventurers.
Seymore Hersh, A Year of Lying About Nordstream [What we thought is confirmed in detail.]
By then the CIA group had long disbanded. By then, too, the official told me: “We realized that the destruction of the two Russian pipelines was not related to the Ukrainian war”—Putin was in the process of annexing the four Ukrainian oblasts he wanted—“but was part of a neocon political agenda to keep Scholz and Germany, with winter coming up and the pipelines shut down, from getting cold feet and opening up” the shuttered Nord Stream 2. “The White House fear was that Putin would get Germany under his thumb and then he was going to get Poland.”
The White House said nothing as the world wondered who committed the sabotage. “So the president struck a blow against the economy of Germany and Western Europe,” the official told me. “He could have done it in June and told Putin: We told you what we would do.” The White House’s silence and denials were, he said, “a betrayal of what we were doing. If you are going to do it, do it when it would have made a difference.”
The leadership of the CIA team viewed Biden’s misleading guidance for its order to destroy the pipelines, the official told me, “as taking a strategic step toward World War III. What if Russia had responded by saying: You blew up our pipelines and I’m going to blow up your pipelines and your communication cables. Nord Stream was not a strategic issue for Putin—it was an economic issue. He wanted to sell gas. He’d already lost his pipelines” when the Nord Stream I and 2 were shut down before the Ukraine war began.
Within days of the bombing, officials in Denmark and Sweden announced they would conduct an investigation. They reported two months later that there had indeed been an explosion and said there would be further inquiries. None has emerged. The German government conducted an inquiry but announced that major parts of its findings would be classified. Last winter German authorities allocated $286 billion in subsidies to major corporations and homeowners who faced higher energy bills to run their business and warm their homes. The impact is still being felt today, with a colder winter expected in Europe.
President Biden waited four days before calling the pipeline bombing “a deliberate act of sabotage.” He said: “now the Russians are pumping out disinformation about it.” Sullivan, who chaired the meetings that led to the proposal to covertly destroy the pipelines, was asked at a later press conference whether the Biden administration “now believes that Russia was likely responsible for the act of sabotage?”
Sullivan’s answer, undoubtedly practiced, was: “Well, first, Russia has done what it frequently does when it is responsible for something, which is make accusations that it was really someone else who did it. We’ve seen this repeatedly over time."
“But the president was also clear today that there is more work to do on the investigation before the United States government is prepared to make an attribution in this case.” He continued: “We will continue to work with our allies and partners to gather all of the facts, and then we will make a determination about where we go from there.”
I could find no instances when Sullivan was subsequently asked by someone in the American press about the results of his “determination.” Nor could I find any evidence that Sullivan, or the president, has been queried since then about the results of the “determination” about where to go.
There is also no evidence that President Biden has required the American intelligence community to conduct a major all-source inquiry into the pipeline bombing. Such requests are known as “Taskings” and are taken seriously inside the government.
All of this explains why a routine question I posed a month or so after the bombings to someone with many years in the American intelligence community led me to a truth that no one in America or Germany seems to want to pursue. My question was simple: “Who did it?”
The Biden administration blew up the pipelines but the action had little to do with winning or stopping the war in Ukraine. It resulted from fears in the White House that Germany would waver and turn on the flow of Russia gas—and that Germany and then NATO, for economic reasons, would fall under the sway of Russia and its extensive and inexpensive natural resources. And thus followed the ultimate fear: that America would lose its long-standing primacy in Western Europe. https://www.globalresearch.ca/year-lying-about-nord-stream/5833986
Please elaborate Kim: 1: who are the specific 'globalists' (medical quack and eugenicist Bill Gates, A.Fauci, G. Soros? Who?)
2: Do you have source information to prove your claim modified-RiboNucleacAcid serum(vax) in food, please? Tip: Then a "m-rna serum ingredient detection application" must be developed to warn citizens. Here an example: " insect scanner" detecting insect ingredients in food. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maba.insektenscanner&hl=en_US
Make a stink to your elected leaders about repealing the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, signed by Obama in 2013 that legally allows the government and media to lie to the american people through propaganda.
A "drunken general" responsible for the biggest environmental catastrophe and terrorist act of sabotage in history and we are expected to believe this BS? This is an even bigger whopper than blaming Russia for blowing up its own pipeline.
This is as fake a story as can be. The United States Military destroyed the pipeline upon orders of Joseph R Biden. Seymour Hersch has written the true story here on Substack on how it was done and by whom. This story in the WSJ is nothing but a CIA propaganda operation the news section of the WSJ can no longer be trusted.
This is beyond laughable and we should not be giving this ridiculous story any airtime. Germany KNOWS who destroyed Nordstream and demolished their economy, as does Sweden (another country who ‘investigated). And it wasn’t some ‘drunken Ukrainian’.
By the way, for anyone really interested, go back on Youtube to the channel Monkeywerx, on the date that Nordstream was demolished. Monkeywerx is a channel that follows aircraft flights, and the flight pattern of the plane that actually detonated the explosive is on the official aircraft flight video.
If you've ever watched Fast Money on CNBC, you've seen supposedly smart hedge fund managers, totally oblivious to the disastrous political situation, just keep touting Netflix and Eli Lilly. So maybe the journal knows its readers.
The WSJ is no more reliable than the NYT or WaPo. The Germans are bunch of girlymen, as they have done nothing but continue to support the Ukrainians and are still the CIA's lackey running dogs.
Biden and Victoria Newland have publicly stated they were going to take down the pipeline. This WSJ article is nonsense.
I agree. That is absolute bullshit. It was done by the Deep State.
Seymore Hersh, A Year of Lying About Nordstream [What we thought is confirmed in detail.]
By then the CIA group had long disbanded. By then, too, the official told me: “We realized that the destruction of the two Russian pipelines was not related to the Ukrainian war”—Putin was in the process of annexing the four Ukrainian oblasts he wanted—“but was part of a neocon political agenda to keep Scholz and Germany, with winter coming up and the pipelines shut down, from getting cold feet and opening up” the shuttered Nord Stream 2. “The White House fear was that Putin would get Germany under his thumb and then he was going to get Poland.”
The White House said nothing as the world wondered who committed the sabotage. “So the president struck a blow against the economy of Germany and Western Europe,” the official told me. “He could have done it in June and told Putin: We told you what we would do.” The White House’s silence and denials were, he said, “a betrayal of what we were doing. If you are going to do it, do it when it would have made a difference.”
The leadership of the CIA team viewed Biden’s misleading guidance for its order to destroy the pipelines, the official told me, “as taking a strategic step toward World War III. What if Russia had responded by saying: You blew up our pipelines and I’m going to blow up your pipelines and your communication cables. Nord Stream was not a strategic issue for Putin—it was an economic issue. He wanted to sell gas. He’d already lost his pipelines” when the Nord Stream I and 2 were shut down before the Ukraine war began.
Within days of the bombing, officials in Denmark and Sweden announced they would conduct an investigation. They reported two months later that there had indeed been an explosion and said there would be further inquiries. None has emerged. The German government conducted an inquiry but announced that major parts of its findings would be classified. Last winter German authorities allocated $286 billion in subsidies to major corporations and homeowners who faced higher energy bills to run their business and warm their homes. The impact is still being felt today, with a colder winter expected in Europe.
President Biden waited four days before calling the pipeline bombing “a deliberate act of sabotage.” He said: “now the Russians are pumping out disinformation about it.” Sullivan, who chaired the meetings that led to the proposal to covertly destroy the pipelines, was asked at a later press conference whether the Biden administration “now believes that Russia was likely responsible for the act of sabotage?”
Sullivan’s answer, undoubtedly practiced, was: “Well, first, Russia has done what it frequently does when it is responsible for something, which is make accusations that it was really someone else who did it. We’ve seen this repeatedly over time."
“But the president was also clear today that there is more work to do on the investigation before the United States government is prepared to make an attribution in this case.” He continued: “We will continue to work with our allies and partners to gather all of the facts, and then we will make a determination about where we go from there.”
I could find no instances when Sullivan was subsequently asked by someone in the American press about the results of his “determination.” Nor could I find any evidence that Sullivan, or the president, has been queried since then about the results of the “determination” about where to go.
There is also no evidence that President Biden has required the American intelligence community to conduct a major all-source inquiry into the pipeline bombing. Such requests are known as “Taskings” and are taken seriously inside the government.
All of this explains why a routine question I posed a month or so after the bombings to someone with many years in the American intelligence community led me to a truth that no one in America or Germany seems to want to pursue. My question was simple: “Who did it?”
The Biden administration blew up the pipelines but the action had little to do with winning or stopping the war in Ukraine. It resulted from fears in the White House that Germany would waver and turn on the flow of Russia gas—and that Germany and then NATO, for economic reasons, would fall under the sway of Russia and its extensive and inexpensive natural resources. And thus followed the ultimate fear: that America would lose its long-standing primacy in Western Europe. https://www.globalresearch.ca/year-lying-about-nord-stream/5833986
"𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗥𝗡𝗔 𝘃𝗮𝘅 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄..."
Please elaborate Kim: 1: who are the specific 'globalists' (medical quack and eugenicist Bill Gates, A.Fauci, G. Soros? Who?)
2: Do you have source information to prove your claim modified-RiboNucleacAcid serum(vax) in food, please? Tip: Then a "m-rna serum ingredient detection application" must be developed to warn citizens. Here an example: " insect scanner" detecting insect ingredients in food. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maba.insektenscanner&hl=en_US
correct this was done by skilled divers is a war games scenario beforehand
I call BS on this one. Pedo Joe warned he was going to stop the pipeline(s).
In e-mails, Hunter calls daddy "Pedo Peter".
The LATE Pedo Pete - you mean :P...
WSJ looks ridiculous here. Not that it's the first time....
MSM is Pravda. We are a captured nation.
Make a stink to your elected leaders about repealing the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, signed by Obama in 2013 that legally allows the government and media to lie to the american people through propaganda.
‘Our elected leaders’? And who would that be? As if they’d listen anyway.
Wow...what a whopper of another lie!
A "drunken general" responsible for the biggest environmental catastrophe and terrorist act of sabotage in history and we are expected to believe this BS? This is an even bigger whopper than blaming Russia for blowing up its own pipeline.
Seems that DEI has overwhelmed the CIA propaganda team.
....just waiting for the drunken general to say..."the devil made me do it."
Just as believable as all the other BS coming from DEI muppets, CIA clowns, blah, blah, blah
This is as fake a story as can be. The United States Military destroyed the pipeline upon orders of Joseph R Biden. Seymour Hersch has written the true story here on Substack on how it was done and by whom. This story in the WSJ is nothing but a CIA propaganda operation the news section of the WSJ can no longer be trusted.
US Navy divers out of Panama City, FL did it.
likely
Jeff Childers covered this today in some detail; generally consistent with John Leake's opinion
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/spectre-thursday-august-15-2024-c
Jeff Childers was spot on! Coffee and Covid is a must read for me each morning.
This is beyond laughable and we should not be giving this ridiculous story any airtime. Germany KNOWS who destroyed Nordstream and demolished their economy, as does Sweden (another country who ‘investigated). And it wasn’t some ‘drunken Ukrainian’.
Technically impossible due to depth and need for days of decompression in special chambers, with equipment of US and or UK Naval Special Forces.
Clutching at straws...
WSJ is confirmed to be as bad as WaPo or NYT.
Not buying it. This did not happen. They really do think we're stupid, and I'm beginning to think they are right. WSJ - Wholly Stupid Journalists.
Not quite that stupid; they got Gerald Celente to pony up a subscription!
Now that Zelensky is all washed up, they might as well blame him. On to the next war with Iran!
By the way, for anyone really interested, go back on Youtube to the channel Monkeywerx, on the date that Nordstream was demolished. Monkeywerx is a channel that follows aircraft flights, and the flight pattern of the plane that actually detonated the explosive is on the official aircraft flight video.
I actually read that article at the time! Excellent!
This is just CIA disinformation.
Absolute hogwash. How stupid does the WSJ think it's readership is?
If you've ever watched Fast Money on CNBC, you've seen supposedly smart hedge fund managers, totally oblivious to the disastrous political situation, just keep touting Netflix and Eli Lilly. So maybe the journal knows its readers.
"It is done" - British Prime Minister Liz Truss's text to the US government minutes after the blast
LOL from Team Ops to Team Public Relations.
Yeah, when I first saw that on RT I thought, "yeah, right!" They would have insulted our intelligence less if they hadn't brought it up again.
The WSJ is no more reliable than the NYT or WaPo. The Germans are bunch of girlymen, as they have done nothing but continue to support the Ukrainians and are still the CIA's lackey running dogs.
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