{"id":20614,"date":"2023-02-08T16:52:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T15:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=20614"},"modified":"2023-02-09T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T07:32:58","slug":"how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=20614","title":{"rendered":"How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seymourhersh.substack.com\/p\/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seymour Hersh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/seymourhersh.substack.com\/p\/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20633 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Nordstream-after-sabotage.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1456\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Nordstream-after-sabotage.webp 1456w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Nordstream-after-sabotage-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Nordstream-after-sabotage-150x84.webp 150w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Nordstream-after-sabotage-768x429.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On September 26, 2022, a Norwegian Navy P8 surveillance plane made a seemingly routine flight and dropped a sonar buoy. The signal spread underwater, initially to Nord Stream 2 and then on to Nord Stream 1. A few hours later, the <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">high-powered<\/span> C4 explosives were triggered and three of the four pipelines were put out of commission. Within a few minutes, pools of methane gas that remained in the shuttered pipelines could be seen spreading on the water\u2019s surface and the world learned that something irreversible had taken place.<\/p>\n<p>In the immediate aftermath of the pipeline bombing, the American media treated it like an unsolved mystery. Russia was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/28\/world\/europe\/pipeline-sabotage-mystery-russia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repeatedly cited as a likely culprit<\/a>, spurred on by calculated leaks from the White House\u2014but without ever establishing a clear motive for such an act of <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">self-sabotage<\/span>, 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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/26\/world\/europe\/nordstream-pipeline-explosion-russia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times described<\/a>\u00a0the news as \u201ccomplicating theories about who was behind\u201d the attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seymour Hersh: On September 26, 2022, a Norwegian Navy P8 surveillance plane made a seemingly routine flight and dropped a sonar buoy. The signal spread underwater, initially to Nord Stream 2 and then on to Nord Stream 1. A few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=20614\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}