Sy Hersh: Biden ordered German pipeline sabotage

[Jon Banks]

German investigators continue to suspect Ukrainian involvement in the pipeline attacks:


UKRAINE carried out Nord Stream pipe blast, German police suspect - despite suspicious Russian naval activity in the area

German investigators are pursuing leads which could implicate Ukraine in carrying out the mysterious Nord Stream pipeline blasts last September, according to a new report.

It comes despite suspicious Russian naval activity in the area just days prior to the still-unexplained explosions on the pipelines that were built to transport gas from Russia to Germany.

The Times reports that the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) is now investigating new leads that could implicate Ukraine and clear Russia of any wrongdoing.

In fact, investigative journalists from Germany, Poland, Sweden and Denmark claimed today that the BKA were unconvinced of any Russian sabotage after thoroughly examining Moscow's naval manoeuvres around the site of the blasts.

German investigators have now turned their attention to the Andromeda - a yacht hire by a Polish company from the north German port of Rostock just weeks before the explosions were carried out.

Andromeda is said to have docked in the marina of Christianso -  a tiny Danish island northeast of Bornholm and in close proximity to where the three bombs went off - in the days leading up to the sabotage.

The yacht was found with traces of 'military-grade and underwater-deployable' explosives.

The theory suggests that five men and woman arrived in Germany using fake Bulgarian and Romanian passports before using the yacht as a base to deploy trained divers to plant the bombs around 70m below sea level.

German investigators argue that the attacks would have required aid from state security services and claim to have found evidence that could implicate Ukraine, according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

The complex trail is said to lead to a shell company, a travel bureau, which was created by two Ukrainians in Warsaw.

The report also suggests German authorities have singled out two other Ukrainians, from near Kyiv and Odesa, as other members on board the yacht. One, a 26-year-old man, is alleged to have previously served in Ukraine's army.

Despite these theories surfacing, security analysts have raised doubts over how such a complex operation could have been carried out by a tiny group on a small yacht without a submarine…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12112113/UKRAINE-carried-Nord-Stream-pipe-blast-German-police-suspect.html

[Jon Banks]

Economist, Jeffrey Sachs, on Nord Stream, the media, and the Ukraine war

[Jon Banks]

US intelligence continues to leak their suspicions about Ukrainian involvement with the pipeline attack:

U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline

Three months before saboteurs bombed the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the Biden administration learned from a close ally that the Ukrainian military had planned a covert attack on the undersea network, using a small team of divers who reported directly to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces.


Details about the plan, which have not been previously reported, were collected by a European intelligence service and shared with the CIA in June 2022.

They provide some of the most specific evidence to date linking the government of Ukraine to the eventual attack in the Baltic Sea, which U.S. and Western officials have called a brazen and dangerous act of sabotage on Europe’s energy infrastructure.


The European intelligence reporting was shared on the chat platform Discord, allegedly by Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira. The Washington Post obtained a copy from one of Teixeira’s online friends.

The intelligence report was based on information obtained from an individual in Ukraine. The source’s information could not immediately be corroborated, but the CIA shared the report with Germany and other European countries last June, according to multiple officials familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence operations and diplomatic discussions.


The highly specific details, which include numbers of operatives and methods of attack, show that for nearly a year Western allies had a basis to suspect Kyiv in the sabotage. That assessment has only strengthened in recent months as German law enforcement investigators uncovered evidence about the bombing that bears striking similarities to what the European service said Ukraine was planning.

Officials in multiple countries confirmed that the intelligence summary posted on Discord accurately stated what the European service told the CIA. The Post agreed to withhold the name of the European country as well as some aspects of the suspected plan at the request of government officials, who said exposing the information would threaten sources and operations...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-ukraine-russia/

[Richard Smith]

US intelligence continues to leak their suspicions about Ukrainian involvement with the pipeline attack:

U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-ukraine-russia/

The evidence is growing and conclusive.  When will the Biden administration be held accountable for the lies they told about this incident?  Never.  They told the world that the Russians were behind this attack knowing that was false.  A ludicrous story that never made sense.  It was obvious to any child that explanation made no sense, but the leftist media and propagandists bought it hook, line, and sinker.  How many times in recent years have such lies been perpetuated as the absolute truth and any dissent mocked?  Russian collusion, Dirty Hunter's laptop, and the origins of COVID. Any reasonable person not radicalized by anti-Trump hatred would have to question what else they have told is a lie now that we know with absolute certain that the Biden administration will knowingly lie for political purposes.