Former President Donald Trump was frank and open during an interview last week with The Blaze founder and radio host Glenn Beck, offering him a frank assessment of who he believes was responsible for destroying Russia’s Nordstream 2 pipeline, a crucial piece of energy infrastructure that sent natural gas from the country into Europe, Germany in particular.
As noted by Revolver News, “Trump’s remarks come on the heels of a remarkable (yet unsubstantiated) report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersch suggesting that the US is directly responsible for blowing up this critical piece of Russian and German infrastructure.”
Hersch said in his lengthy and detailed report:
Two of the pipelines, which were known collectively as Nord Stream 1, had been providing Germany and much of Western Europe with cheap Russian natural gas for more than a decade. A second pair of pipelines, called Nord Stream 2, had been built but were not yet operational. Now, with Russian troops massing on the Ukrainian border and the bloodiest war in Europe since 1945 looming, President Joseph Biden saw the pipelines as a vehicle for Vladimir Putin to weaponize natural gas for his political and territorial ambitions.
Asked for comment, Adrienne Watson, a White House spokesperson, said in an email, “This is false and complete fiction.” Tammy Thorp, a spokesperson for the Central Intelligence Agency, similarly wrote: “This claim is completely and utterly false.”
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. For much of that time, the issue was not whether to do the mission, but how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible.
Despite claims by several US intelligence officials and politicians with ties to the national security state, no convincing or logical explanation has been provided to support the assertion that Russia would have destroyed its own prized Nordstream 2 pipeline. While the responsible party remains unknown, the notion that Russia would undertake such an action appears dubious, Trump indicated.
Although analysts who are both intelligent and honest have discounted the notion that Russia would have destroyed its own valuable pipeline, it is still possible that the sabotage was carried out by a proxy group acting with the tacit approval of the United States, as suggested by Hersh, rather than by the US government directly. It is worth noting that shortly after the Nordstream 2 pipeline explosion at the Baltic’s seabed, a noteworthy event occurred.
Trump told Beck: “Well, it could have been us, and it could have been Ukraine, and it could have been some third-party country that wants to see trouble. The one group it wasn’t is Russia. This is a main source of massive income for them. They didn’t blow it up to make a point. That’s the one thing I can tell you for sure.”
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President Trump was asked if the Biden administration blew up the Nord Stream pipeline:
“Well, it could have been us, and it could have been Ukraine, and it could have been some third-party country that wants to see trouble. The one group it wasn’t is Russia.
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