{"id":264927,"date":"2023-02-11T06:32:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T06:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=264927"},"modified":"2023-02-13T08:38:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T08:38:46","slug":"us-lying-about-nord-stream-expose-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=264927","title":{"rendered":"US \u2018lying\u2019 about Nord Stream expose \u2013 Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT.com \u2013 Feb 10, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Attempts by the US State Department to brush off Seymour Hersh\u2019s article about the sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines as \u201cnonsense\u201d<\/em> are overt lies that display shocking ignorance of American history, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n

The veteran investigative journalist reported<\/a> on Wednesday that the US was behind the destruction of the Baltic Sea pipelines in September 2022. American divers planted charges under the cover of a NATO exercise, and a Norwegian airplane detonated them remotely when the time came, Hersh wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would not be typical for us to engage allies and partners on something that is utter and complete nonsense,\u201d<\/em> State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Thursday, answering a question about Hersh\u2019s article.<\/p>\n

Zakharova said she was astonished by Price\u2019s audacity to call \u201cnonsense\u201d<\/em> what US President Joe Biden<\/a> and Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland openly described<\/a> as their preferred outcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe US is once again lying live on air, openly mocking journalists who asked fully justified questions,\u201d<\/em> Zakharova said.<\/p>\n

Washington also has a history of targeting civilian petrochemical infrastructure, Zakharova noted, citing the 1983 CIA sabotage of a pipeline in Nicaragua as an example.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou did this, you do this, and you will do this until you\u2019re stopped,\u201d<\/em> the spokeswoman added.<\/p>\n

As for bringing allies and partners into \u201cnonsense,\u201d<\/em> Zakharova argued that this was precisely what \u201ctrans-Atlantic solidarity\u201d<\/em> means in practice, referring to the 2003 invasion of Iraq as one example.<\/p>\n

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Colin Powell holds up a vial allegedly containing Iraqi anthrax at the UN General Assembly. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cTwenty years ago, Secretary of State Colin Powell brought to the UN Security Council a vial of something, and called [on] allies and partners to invade a sovereign state, without any evidence, over claims that proved to be utter nonsense. Ned, do you know your own department\u2019s history?\u201d<\/em> Zakharova said. \u201cI have no doubts that at the State Department they are bad with the history of their own country. That\u2019s why we are where we are.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Explosions that damaged both Nord Stream pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm cut off the flow of Russian natural gas to Germany. US officials tried to blame Russia for the blasts, while expressing delight at the destruction and calling it<\/a> an \u201copportunity\u201d<\/em> for Europe. The White House has denounced<\/a> Hersh\u2019s report as \u201cutterly false and complete fiction.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Zakharova noted that Denmark and Sweden had refused Russian offers to assist with the investigation, while Norway declined to provide aid citing EU sanctions, adding that this shows the three governments were not interested in finding out the truth, but rather covering it up.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

See Sy Hersh\u2019s full article \u2026https:\/\/seymourhersh.substack.com\/p\/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe US is once again lying live on air, openly mocking journalists who asked fully justified questions,\u201d Zakharova said. \u201cYou did this, you do this, and you will do this until you\u2019re stopped,\u201d she added<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":148153,"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-264927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264927","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=264927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264928,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264927\/revisions\/264928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}