{"id":259303,"date":"2022-10-01T07:20:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259303"},"modified":"2022-10-02T07:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T07:23:38","slug":"russian-security-chief-names-obvious-beneficiary-of-pipeline-rupture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259303","title":{"rendered":"Russian security chief names \u2018obvious\u2019 beneficiary of pipeline rupture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aletho News \u2013 Sept 30, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The US stands to benefit economically from the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines and has a record of targeting energy infrastructure with sabotage operations, the head of Russia\u2019s Security Council said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty much from the first minutes after the news of the explosions broke \u2026 the West launched an active campaign for assigning blame. But it is obvious that the primary beneficiary, first of all in the economic sense, was the US,\u201d\u00a0Nikolay Patrushev said on Friday.<\/p>\n

He compared this week\u2019s incident with the attack on Nicaragua\u2019s oil infrastructure in Puerto Sandino in 1983. Back then CIA officers, based on a ship moored in international waters, coordinated a raid by commandos they had trained to fight against the Sandinista government, US press\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0at the time. The US spy agency also provided speed boats for the raid, a CIA source explained, according to Associated Press.<\/p>\n

The operation was part of the Reagan administration\u2019s \u201cdirty war\u201d on Nicaragua, which later led to the Iran-Contras scandal. The CIA\u2019s secret sale of weapons to Iran to fund Latin American militants was exposed in 1986.<\/p>\n

Patrushev made the remarks at a meeting with fellow security officials from former Soviet nations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt appears to be necessary to coordinate our effort to expose the masterminds and executors of this crime, setting a good example for effective cooperation,\u201d\u00a0he told his counterparts.<\/p>\n

He noted that the US goal was\u00a0\u201censuring strategic and economic superiority over alternative centers of power\u201d\u00a0even though Washington\u2019s ally the EU has been suffering from its policies. The US is replacing Russian natural gas with its more expensive liquified natural gas, as the bloc moves to decouple its economy from Russian energy sources.<\/p>\n

The leaks in the two Nord Stream pipelines were first detected on Monday, when pressure in the undersea links connecting Russia directly to Germany drastically dropped. The pipelines were apparently breached with explosives, with the blasts detected by earthquake sensors in Sweden.<\/p>\n

Moscow called the incident an international terrorist attack against civilian infrastructure, while some Western officials described it as an act of sabotage.<\/p>\n

Some critics of Russia speculated that Moscow decided to blow up its own gas links with Germany to put pressure on the EU.<\/p>\n

Polish MEP and former Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski thanked the US for the incident, but later deleted the tweet, calling his implied assertion of Washington\u2019s involvement a personal working theory.<\/p>\n

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As the old adage goes, to find out who is responsible for a crime, look for who benefits the most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259306,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259303\/revisions\/259306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}