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The legendary US investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, revealed why America blew up the Nord Stream pipeline that supplies Russian gas to Western Europe. Photo/REUTERS
MOSCOW – The legendary investigative journalist of the United States (US), Seymour Hersh, reveals why America blew up pipes Nord Stream which supplies Russian gas to Western Europe.
According to Hersh, US President Joe Biden ordered the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline with a bomb planted by the US Navy under the Baltic Sea to ensure Germany could not change its mind about sanctions against Russia and weapons shipments to Ukraine.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shed light on the American reason during an interview on Russia Today’s “Going Underground” program that was briefly broadcast on Thursday. The full interview will be broadcast on Saturday (25/2/2023) tomorrow.
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Earlier this month, Hersh published an article blaming the US and Norway for a series of explosions that crippled the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.
In an interview with “Going Underground” broadcaster Afshin Ratansi, Hersh said the US intelligence community had already drawn up the plan by the end of 2021, before the escalation of hostilities in Ukraine.
However, when Biden and Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland publicly spoke of “halting” and “ending” Nord Stream 2 operations, Hersh claims the US intelligence community was upset. “Because it was supposed to be a covert operation,” he said.
“The people who were doing this in the intelligence community, thought it was a good idea at first,” Hersh told Rattan.
The story goes that the bomb was planted in June, during the scheduled BALTOPS 2022 Navy exercise on the Danish island of Bornholm. The bomb exploded at the end of September, as Ukraine faced a “serious problem” on the battlefield.
“It will not help the war. What he did was to prevent Germany and Western Europe, should winter come quickly, from opening pipelines,” Hersh said.
