(WATCH) Retired Four-Star General Suggests Who Was Behind Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage

In leaked footage obtained by Valuetainment, retired four-star General Stan McChrystal suggested neither Russia nor Ukraine was responsible for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines.

McChrystal, best known for his command of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) from 2003 to 2008, suggested the United States was behind the sabotage.

“There’s no obvious better solution in Russia. I think Putin ought to go, but there’s nobody that I’m aware of standing on the wings,” McChrystal said.

“Remember the whole Nord Stream thing?” a man asked. “In the beginning of that, I was like, ‘Oh yeah, Russia did it,’ but I don’t know.”

“Who do you think did that [Nord Stream]?” the man asked.

“My son is the leader of the energy team at DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency]. He didn’t think the Russians did it,” McChrystal responded.

“He didn’t think the Ukrainians officially did it either. I mean, there are people who benefited from it, and that was people who produced natural gas around the world. So if you really want to get conspiracy…United States made more money off that deal than anybody else,” McChrystal explained.

“But yeah, but that’s you know, because we [U.S.] were huge beneficiaries, we changed our policy. We started providing liquid natural gas overseas and, you know,” he added.

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BREAKING: Footage obtained by Valuetainment captures General Stan McChrystal (Ret.) confirming neither Russia or Ukraine blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.

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— Valuetainment Media (@ValuetainmentTV) July 20, 2023

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published the bombshell report in February 2023 alleging the United States carried out a top-secret operation to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines.

“The New York Times called it a ‘mystery,’ but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now,” Hersh wrote on his Substack.

Hersh writes:

Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.

Two of the pipelines, which were known collectively as Nord Stream 1, had been providing Germany and much of Western Europe with cheap Russian natural gas for more than a decade. A second pair of pipelines, called Nord Stream 2, had been built but were not yet operational. Now, with Russian troops massing on the Ukrainian border and the bloodiest war in Europe since 1945 looming, President Joseph Biden saw the pipelines as a vehicle for Vladimir Putin to weaponize natural gas for his political and territorial ambitions.

Asked for comment, Adrienne Watson, a White House spokesperson, said in an email, “This is false and complete fiction.” Tammy Thorp, a spokesperson for the Central Intelligence Agency, similarly wrote: “This claim is completely and utterly false.”

Biden’s decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington’s national security community about how to best achieve that goal. For much of that time, the issue was not whether to do the mission, but how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible.

There was a vital bureaucratic reason for relying on the graduates of the center’s hardcore diving school in Panama City. The divers were Navy only, and not members of America’s Special Operations Command, whose covert operations must be reported to Congress and briefed in advance to the Senate and House leadership—the so-called Gang of Eight. The Biden Administration was doing everything possible to avoid leaks as the planning took place late in 2021 and into the first months of 2022.

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President Biden and his foreign policy team—National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and Victoria Nuland, the Undersecretary of State for Policy—had been vocal and consistent in their hostility to the two pipelines, which ran side by side for 750 miles under the Baltic Sea from two different ports in northeastern Russia near the Estonian border, passing close to the Danish island of Bornholm before ending in northern Germany.

The direct route, which bypassed any need to transit Ukraine, had been a boon for the German economy, which enjoyed an abundance of cheap Russian natural gas—enough to run its factories and heat its homes while enabling German distributors to sell excess gas, at a profit, throughout Western Europe. Action that could be traced to the administration would violate US promises to minimize direct conflict with Russia. Secrecy was essential.

Read Seymour Hersh’s full report at his Substack.

The “PBD Podcast” discussed the leaked footage in an episode that aired Friday.

“In this short clip, Patrick Bet-David shares shocking information he received showing footage of a military 4-star general, claiming the U.S. was behind the Nord Stream pipeline bombing,” Valuetainment writes.

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