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"I’m Telling You, He Did It": Seymour Hersh Blames Biden For Nord Stream Attack

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh told the National
Press Club in Washington, D.C. that Joe Biden made the decision to
blow up Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines because he saw being a war
president as giving him a better chance at re-election.
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Last month, Hersh published a report asserting that the pipelines were
destroyed by the US as part of a covert operation.

According to Hersh’s sources, the explosives were planted in June 2022
by US Navy divers under the guise of the BALTOPS 22 NATO exercise and
were detonated three months later with a remote signal sent by a sonar
buoy.

One source told Hersh that the plotters knew the covert operation was
an “act of war,” with some in the CIA and State Department warning,
“Don’t do this. It’s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it
comes out.”

Last week, the New York Times reported that a “pro-Ukrainian group”
had sabotaged the pipelines, using a team with as few as six people
involved in the mission, contradicting previous assumptions that only
a state would have had the resources to carry out the operation.

According to Hersh, referring to Biden, “He did it. He did it, I’m
telling you, he did it," adding, "The Biden game is to wait it out and
never say yes.”

The journalist claimed that Biden wanted to escalate the conflict in
order to position himself as a war president.

“I think Biden also saw beating up Russia as a ticket. Jack Kennedy is
a classic example – presidents always did well politically in wars,”
he said.

Hersh claimed that Biden made the decision in January 2022 to “see if
we can find a way to blow… those pipelines, and put [the Russians]
back in the dark ages.”

The Pulitzer-Prize winner went on to savage the legacy media for
completely failing to follow up on his report that the U.S. was
responsible for the attack, which took out three of the four
pipelines.

Meanwhile, China has reacted with skepticism towards the explanation
that a pro-Ukrainian group was responsible for the blasts.

During a press briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin called
for “an objective, impartial and professional investigation” into the
bombing.

“We have noted that some Western media have been mysteriously quiet
after Hersh reported that the US was behind the Nord Stream blast. But
now these media are unusually simultaneous in making their voice
heard. How would the US account for such abnormality? Is there
anything hidden behind the scene?” Wang asked.

New reports also reveal that a German spy ship was in the area where
the attack occurred at the time of the blasts on September 26.

According to a report by German magazine Der Spiegel, the CIA warned
Berlin about a potential attack on gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea
weeks before it happened.

As we highlighted yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin branded
claims that the Nord Stream pipeline attack was the work of
pro-Ukrainian activists “nonsense,” arguing the blasts must have been
carried out by a state power.