US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland has expressed joy over the destruction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
She also argued that, even if the USA had sanctioned the infrastructure weeks before the Ukraine conflict broke out, this would not have prevented hostilities.
During a Senate hearing on Thursday, Nuland was asked by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) whether his legislation aimed at sanctioning the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which was voted down in January 2022, could have stopped the conflict before it began.
Nuland thinks the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of scrap metal @ the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
She also noted that she had been involved in negotiations with Russia prior to the conflict in a bid to prevent this type of NATO war.
The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were heavily damaged by underwater explosions in September 2022, in what were widely thought to be sabotage attacks. Moscow has consistently denied involvement and denounced the incident as a terrorist attack.
Nuland insisted that Russian President Vladimir Putin was bound and determined to go into Ukraine and that cutting Nord Stream 2 off in January would not have been decisive for him. NS 2 was to be a route for the delivery of natural gas from Russia directly to Germany.
Berlin suspended certification of the pipeline following Moscow’s recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in February. While the conflict raged in Ukraine last March, Nuland claimed that the project was dead and unlikely to be revived.
This is how the US regime landed @ the next stage in the conflict against Russia. Maritime tracking information showed American warships were in the vicinity during the pipeline blast.
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev in turn claimed that Moscow had obtained certain materials, which point to a Western trace in organizing and executing the blasts that destroyed the pipelines.
While nobody has claimed responsibility for the Nord Stream explosions, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the incident as a tremendous opportunity, which would enable EU countries to become less dependent on Russian energy.
Moscow officials have repeatedly said the USA was the primary beneficiary of the blasts, with Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov arguing last month that, by weaning itself off Russian energy, the EU would conveniently become addicted to American energy instead.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point WW III News 2023.
That ‘Useless chunk of metal at the bottom of the sea’ will be famous last words.
Ah yes, probably one of the most hated Dem death hags of the US gov behind Clinton and Peloski. Wonder if countries outside the USA hate this woman as much as domestically?
At least stupid Liz Truss ‘message’ to Blinken over Nord Stream attack saying “its done” says it all.
I can promise you that less than 1% of the population of the US even knows who this person is let alone agrees with her. Though it really wouldn’t surprise me if Biden and his handlers did approve of it
The USA does not hide their evil side and open display of thuggery and hatred of all things Russian.
MadMullah, Exactly ……no remorse what so ever, because this comes natural to them, blowing up opposition structures all over the world?