Russia calls special UNSC meeting over Nord Stream sabotage report
Russia Wednesday called for a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss a recent report detailing the Biden administration’s alleged sabotage of Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines in September.
According to a report this week by Pulitzer Prizer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, the plan was conceived in 2021 as the White House grew concerned that the 760-mile pipeline, which funneled cheap Russian natural gas to northern Germany, would cause Europe to become more dependent on Russia and less on the United States.
The White House also worried that if Germany and other European states became dependent on Russian energy, they would not supply aid and weapons to Ukraine.
One thing that was obvious to all involved was that the operation, if discovered by Russia, could be seen as an act of war. The plan, therefore, had to be kept secret — so secret that even Congressional leaders would not know about it.
After Hersh published his report — which the federal government denies — Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Wednesday said he contacted the UN.
"We appealed to the UN and raised this issue. We are preparing a special meeting of the Security Council. We will demand to determine some kind of investigation," Lavrov said during a speech at the State Duma, Russia’s lower legislative house.
"UN Secretary General has already said through his official representative that the UN has no authority and mandate to carry out such investigations. With all due respect, we disagree with this position," Russian Foreign Minister added, according to Republic World.
The UN meeting is called for February 22nd. Russia President Vladimir Putin will address the Federal Assembly the day before.
Lavrov also mocked Germany, who he said “was not only humiliated but it was also put in its place” when the Biden administration unilaterally blew up its energy access.
The Biden administration enlisted the help of Norway for the operation, where the US has a newly refurbished submarine base. Norway, aside from being anti-Russia, would benefit from an out-of-commission Nord Stream because it would enable Norway to sell its own natural gas to Europe.
Hersh says the operation was hi-tech and daring. It was decided to have divers place concrete-sleeved bombs at strategic spots on the pipeline 260 feet beneath the Baltic Sea, a few miles from Denmark’s Bornholm Island. The bombs could be detonated on Biden’s command.
But for reasons still unclear, Biden publicly announced in March that the US government “will bring an end” to Nord Stream 2.
"If Russia invades . . . then there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2," he said during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. "We will bring an end to it."
When a reporter asked him how the US would end the pipeline, Biden ominously answered, "I promise you, we will be able to do it."
Two months before, State Department official Victoria Nuland vowed that “If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.”
These statements would later be used to question the Biden administration’s denial that it had anything to do with the Nord Stream’s explosion. The questions grew when a Biden official discarded rumors of a White House-authorized sabotage as “Russian disinformation,” a phrase that has become a go-to red herring for the Biden administration and its Pravda operatives in the mainstream media. The coordinated narrative accused Russia of sabotaging its own pipeline, though no motive was given.
