Nord Stream Sabotaged by USA?

 Remember last year when Russia's huge gas pipeline called Nordstream was blown up?  Most folks figured it would have had to have been done by an advanced military who had the capability of sending frogmen down to the bottom of the ocean and planting a ton of explosives.  So that narrowed the filed of likely culprits.

Today we are reading that a prominent author is pinning the blame on USA.

Famed journalist and Pulitzer prize winner Seymour Hersh, who for decades was a star reporter writing for The New York Times and New Yorker, on Wednesday published a new bombshell as his first Substack post, prompting a quick White House response

After conducting his own investigation into who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines via a series of underwater blasts on Sept. 26, Hersh has concluded 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.

As momentum gained to proceed with a covert sabotage attack, "Over the next few weeks, members of the CIA’s working group began to craft a plan for a covert operation that would use deep-sea divers to trigger an explosion along the pipeline," Hersh writes.

But there was significant push back within the intelligence community, but any reservations were overcome in the lead-up and aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. According to the investigative report: 

Throughout “all of this scheming,” the source said, “some working guys in the CIA and the State Department were saying, ‘Don’t do this. It’s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out.’”

Nevertheless, in early 2022, the CIA working group reported back to Sullivan’s interagency group: “We have a way to blow up the pipelines.”

What came next was stunning. 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 wobbling, was now firmly on the American team. At the press briefing that followed, Biden defiantly said, “If Russia invades . . . there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”

Twenty days earlier, Undersecretary Nuland had delivered essentially the same message at a State Department briefing, with little press coverage. “I want to be very clear to you today,” she said in response to a question. “If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.”

Here;  Nord Stream Sabotage Was CIA, US Navy Covert Op: Seymour Hersh Bombshell Prompts White House Response | ZeroHedge

This could certainly put us much closer to being in direct conflict with Russia if it turns out to be true.  Along with sending Ukraine Abrams tanks, used to kill Russian soldiers, along with the missiles and bullets that we are already sending them...it seems like we could be in a pickle.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't have done it, but I just wonder how ready and willing the USA is to get in a war with Russia.  If China decided to attack Taiwan at the same time we start battling with Russia, things could get really dicey.

Also please remember that the US Military is having a really tough time recruiting soldiers because our youth have become so fat, unathletic and transgendered.

It makes a case that what we are possibly seeing is the rapid decline of the greatest country on God's green earth.  Do we even have the money available to borrow if we need to fight some expensive wars?

I hope and pray that Jesus is coming soon!