Everyone with half a brain knew this months ago. Biden openly announced that Nord Stream 2 would be taken out. Also the US is the only one to benefit from its destruction, by selling LNG at a huge markup.

[–] Otan@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Stoltenberg [...] was a hardliner on all things Putin and Russia who had cooperated with the American intelligence community since the Vietnam War.

The only problem: At the time when Stoltenberg is said to have made a name for himself as a henchman for the US secret services in the Vietnam War, he was just 13 years old.

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

US is the only country that has a clear motivation and the means for blowing up the pipeline. Biden literally said that pipeline would stop operating if Russia invaded Ukraine in a press conference. Polish MP promptly thanked the US after the pipeline was destroyed, and Nuland recently all but admitted this. German intelligence recently said they are becoming open to the idea that a western nation was responsible. Printed in an approved propaganda outlet to boot. It would require extraordinary proof to claim that US is not the responsible party here.

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[–] guojing@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who else would you suspect? Don't say Russia because that's ridiculous.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I'm going to go with the journalist who has a long history of exposing US atrocities on this one. It's incredible not to presume that the party with the history, the motive, and the means to carry out this kind of a terrorist act carried it out. Especially given that top US officials said the pipelines would be stopped and then all but bragged about this after they were destroyed.

It's also hard to carry out any kind of a proper investigation when one of the parties whose pipeline was blown up is prevented from investigating. The pipeline was owned by Russia, and the west is not allowing Russia to investigate what happened. This precludes any kind of proper investigation, and indicates that there is something western countries want to hide.