journalist who has won multiple awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, ,
how America blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
The article details how the US government, working with the CIA, planned to detonate the pipeline, how it was detonated, and how they tried to deal with the aftermath of the detonation. Specifically, under the guise of the Baltops 2022 international military exercise, US divers placed C4 charges around the gas pipelines, which were later detonated.
According to the journalist's sources, the order was issued by Joe Biden himself.
“Biden's decision to sabotage the pipelines comes after more than nine months of top-secret debate. There has been debate within the national security community in Washington about how best to achieve this goal. During that time, the question was not whether to carry out the mission, but how to carry it out without openly knowing who was responsible for it,” explained Hersh.
The journalist explained that Biden viewed the Nord Stream pipelines as a possible way for Putin to use natural gas as a weapon for his political and territorial ambitions, according to Mandiner .
As he wrote, they directly bypassed Congress and the Senate in the planning: "The divers [participating in the plan] belonged exclusively to the Navy, not to the US Special Operations Command, whose covert operations must be reported to Congress and the Senate and the leadership of the House of Representatives - the so-called Group of Eight.
The Biden administration made every effort to avoid leaks as planning took place in late 2021 and early 2022.”
As he wrote, the CIA announced at the beginning of 2022 that they had found the right method to detonate the Nord Stream.
"What happened next was shocking. On February 7, less than three weeks before the seemingly inevitable Russian invasion of Ukraine, Biden met in his White House office with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who, after some wavering, was now firmly on the side of the American team. At the following press conference, Biden defiantly declared: "If Russia invades (…) there will be no more Nord Stream 2. We will end it," he wrote.
He explained that Norway was the perfect area to blow up the line: “The planners in Washington knew they had to go to Norway. "They hated the Russians, and the Norwegian navy was full of excellent sailors and divers with generations of experience in the highly profitable deep-sea oil and gas exploration," the source said. They could also be trusted to keep the mission a secret. (Norwegians may have had other interests. Destroying the Nord Stream – if the Americans succeeded in doing it – would allow Norway to sell much more of its own natural gas to Europe).”
Hersh described that
the Americans placed C4 charges on the wire, which were detonated by a sonar system.
"2022. on September 26, a P8 reconnaissance aircraft of the Norwegian Navy apparently carried out a routine flight and dropped a sonar mast. The signal propagated underwater, first towards Nord Stream 2 and then Nord Stream 1. A few hours later, the high-powered C4 explosive devices went off, disabling three of the four pipelines. Within minutes, pools of methane gas left in the sealed pipelines spread across the surface of the water, and the world knew something irreversible had happened.”
Source: hirado.hu
Featured Image: This image provided by the Danish Armed Forces shows bubbles breaking on the surface of the sea in a circle roughly one kilometer in diameter due to a leak in the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines transporting natural gas from Russia to Germany off the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea on September 27, 2022. (Photo: MTI/AP/Danish Armed Forces)
