According to an exhaustive report by noted U.S. journalist Sydney Hersh, the Biden administration planned for the demolition of the Nordstream pipeline, through which Russian gas was reaching Europe. The report was released in a substack article.
Following the report, the Russians are now calling for an International Probe into the incident, a call that is sure to gain momentum among Russian and China adjacent nations, which is an increasing number, especially in Africa.
“Biden’s decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington’s national security community about how to best achieve that goal,” Hersh wrote, in part, in his report.
The sabotage effectively ended Russia’s natural gas leverage over Europe. It forced Russian-gas-dependent nations to develop new solutions for energy, through different partnerships and inhouse shifts in energy tech. For instance, the Germans eased restrictions on coal to meet the new post-Nordstream reality.
Hersh’s report follows a German report that exonerated the Russians from being self-saboteurs.
If the President of the United States ordered such an overt action that can only be interpreted by Russia as an act of war, then he seriously violated the Constitution by taking an action of war without congressional approval. More than that, he pushed Russia into an existential corner, a nation with thousands of nuclear warheads, an impeachable act on its own if ever any of Donald Trump’s showpeachments merited actual impeachment.
Hersh writes of the fallout of the whole affair:
In the immediate aftermath of the pipeline bombing, the American media treated it like an unsolved mystery. Russia was repeatedly cited as a likely culprit, spurred on by calculated leaks from the White House—but without ever establishing a clear motive for such an act of self-sabotage, beyond simple retribution. A few months later, when it emerged that Russian authorities had been quietly getting estimates for the cost to repair the pipelines, the New York Times described the news as “complicating theories about who was behind” the attack. No major American newspaper dug into the earlier threats to the pipelines made by Biden and Undersecretary of State Nuland.
While it was never clear why Russia would seek to destroy its own lucrative pipeline, a more telling rationale for the President’s action came from Secretary of State Blinken.
Asked at a press conference last September about the consequences of the worsening energy crisis in Western Europe, Blinken described the moment as a potentially good one:
“It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. That’s very significant and that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come, but meanwhile we’re determined to do everything we possibly can to make sure the consequences of all of this are not borne by citizens in our countries or, for that matter, around the world.”
Real Europeans suffer as a result of this action, for, while Europe has been able to meet much of the burden of replacing the lost energy resource, that hasn’t been entirely the case for all households. The extended cost is felt in the price of food across Europe, which further burdens the least with the most needs.
Blinken talks about weaponizing energy while he lauds what seems to be DNC-America’s weaponization of energy directly, by bombing a critical pipeline that triggered a man-made environmental disaster. The DNC chose power over the planet. Let that sink in “environmentalists.”
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Paul Collier
Paul Collier is the editor of The Freedomist newsite, our Weekday Reports, and our Monthly Publication, Freedomist Intelligence Advisor (previously McAlvany Intelligence Advisor). He has been involved in news publishing since 2003.
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