President Donald Trump confirmed that Russia was not behind the Nord Stream pipeline explosion, strongly suggesting that the Biden administration and Ukraine were the real culprits, a claim that aligns with long-held suspicions among critics of the official narrative.
“If you can believe it they said Russia blew it up,” Trump acknowledged in response to a question on whether two-and-half years after the bombings, the US administration would open up a formal investigation into who was behind the biggest act of industrial sabotage in history.
“Well probably if I asked certain people they would be able to tell you without having to waste a lot of money on an investigation,” the president said. “But I think a lot of people know who blew it up, but I was the one who blew it up originally because I wouldn’t let it be built, and then when Biden got in he allowed it to be built.”
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ZeroHedge report: President strongly suggested that based on classified intelligence he knows exactly who was behind the September 26, 2022 covert operation which ended in the Baltic Sea explosions and major leaks which took the vital Russia to Germany natural gas pipelines permanently offline.
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Of course, with no investigation whatsoever (a serious European inquiry didn’t even begin till the following year), Western mainstream press coalesced around the dubious “Russia bombed their own pipeline!” narrative.
That’s when Trump as an aside tipped his hand related to his strategy for leveraging the price of oil to bring Moscow to the negotiating table. “But I think Russia with the price of oil right now, oil’s gone down, I think we’re in a good position to settle – they want to settle, Ukraine wants to settle. If I weren’t president nobody would be settling,” he explained.
“They’re losing 5,000 people,.. think of it here we’re talking about football… they’re losing 5,000 people on average a week,” he continued. “Mostly Ukrainian soldiers and Russian soldiers… not including people that are killed by missiles going to areas they shouldn’t be. It’s a very terrible thing and I’ve think we’ve come a long way.”
Whodunnit?
In early 2023, famed journalist and Pulitzer price winner Seymour Hersh published a bombshell report which concluded that the United States blew up the Russia-to-Germany natural gas pipeline as part of a covert operation under the guise of the BALTOPS 22 NATO exercise.
Hersh, relying on unnamed national security sources, describes months of discussions and back-and-forth involving the Biden White House, CIA, and Pentagon. The report says planning was in the works all the way back to December 2021, with a special task force formed under the aegis of US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
“The Navy proposed using a newly commissioned submarine to assault the pipeline directly. The Air Force discussed dropping bombs with delayed fuses that could be set off remotely. The CIA argued that whatever was done, it would have to be covert. Everyone involved understood the stakes,” the report, entitled How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline reads. “The Biden Administration was doing everything possible to avoid leaks as the planning took place late in 2021 and into the first months of 2022,” it continues.
In parallel, an interesting Ukrainian ‘rogue ops’ narrative emerged, reported in the Wall Street Journal and some other outlets long after the explosions. In that version the scheme was dubbed a Ukrainian “public-private” partnership as it involved military officers reportedly being financed from these private sector sources. Some top Ukrainian special-operations officers were recruited, and the crew set out “armed only with diving equipment, satellite navigation, a portable sonar and open-source maps of the seabed charting the position of the pipelines.”
The Ukrainian ‘rogue’ covert sabotage and CIA narratives aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. But Trump’s response to ZH should put the ‘Russia destroyed its own vital and economically lucrative pipeline’ storyline to rest.