Seymour Hersch: America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

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seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream?r=5mz1

Seymour hasn't had a great record in recent years. I don't post this in support of what he writes. Like so many Americans I have no idea where the truth situates itself on this topic

But naming the US Navy as the saboteur is really provocative, I am sure Putin and his gang will use this posting to claim this is a direct attack on Russian property by the United States.


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Two of the pipelines, which were known collectively as Nord Stream 1, had been providing Germany and much of Western Europe with cheap Russian natural gas for more than a decade. A second pair of pipelines, called Nord Stream 2, had been built but were not yet operational. Now, with Russian troops massing on the Ukrainian border and the bloodiest war in Europe since 1945 looming, President Joseph Biden saw the pipelines as a vehicle for Vladimir Putin to weaponize natural gas for his political and territorial ambitions.

Asked for comment, Adrienne Watson, a White House spokesperson, said in an email, “This is false and complete fiction.” Tammy Thorp, a spokesperson for the Central Intelligence Agency, similarly wrote: “This claim is completely and utterly false.”... "