EPISODE 389： HUMAN EVENTS SPECIAL - OPERATION NORDSTREAM
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Summary
Operation Nord Stream 2 is the most mysterious whodunit in geopolitics in modern history. Or is it? Today, Seymour Hersh came out with a bombshell report. Based on his reporting, based on sources that have reached out to him, that state unequivocally, the United States blew up the Russia-Germany natural gas pipeline as part of a covert operation under the guise of a NATO exercise in the Baltic in the summer of 2022.
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Folks, today we've got a bombshell about a bombshell. Today is a Human Events special
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episode all about Operation Nord Stream. The clandestine operation to destroy the Nord Stream
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pipelines in the Baltic Sea. We are going to dive into it, pun completely intended,
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for the entire show today. I want to also make sure that you are signed up for the POSO Daily Brief.
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full access to it completely for free at humanevents.com slash POSO. Let's get into it.
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Let me answer the first question first. If Germany — if Russia invades, that means tanks or troops
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crossing the border of Ukraine again, then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring
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an end to it. How will you do that exactly, since the project and control of the project is within
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Germany's control? We will — I promise you, we'll be able to do it. If Russia invades Ukraine,
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one way or another, Nord Stream 2, will not move forward.
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John? How can you say that for sure? Where does your confidence come from on that?
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As I said, we've had extensive consultations at every level with our German allies. I'm not going
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to get into the specifics here today, but we will work with Germany to ensure that the pipeline does
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not move forward. The situation today looks fundamentally different, and that means that
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with regard to the latest developments, we need to reassess the situation also with regard to Nord Stream 2.
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I have asked the Federal Ministry of Economics to look at the — to withdraw the report on the
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security of supply with the Federal Networks Agency. It sounds a bit technocratic, but this is the first
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necessary step to make sure that this pipeline cannot be certified at this point in time. And without
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this certification, Nord Stream 2 cannot operate. Senator Cruz, like you, I am — and I think the
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administration is very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at
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the bottom of the sea. Operation Nord Stream 2. Operation Nord Stream. The most mysterious whodunit in
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geopolitics in modern history. Or is it? Because when this happened back in September of 2022, there
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were a lot of people pointing fingers. There were people pointing fingers all over the place.
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Was it Moscow? Was it Washington? Was it Berlin? Was it Ukrainians, somehow, that made their way into the
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Baltic and conducted this international act? Today, Seymour Hersh came out with a bombshell report.
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Now, Seymour Hersh, he's former New York Times, former New Yorker. He is the man that broke the MyLine
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Massacre, the Abu Ghraib scandal, Pulitzer Prize winning. This is a guy that the left can't ignore.
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But the problem for them is that he's a member of the old left. He's not going along with the new stuff.
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He remembers the idea behind what actual journalism is. Actual journalism means reporting the things
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that the people in power don't want you to report. Seymour Hersh has come out today
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based on his reporting, based on sources that have reached out to him, that state unequivocally,
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the United States blew up the Russia to Germany natural gas pipeline as part of a covert operation
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under the guise of the Baltops 22 NATO exercise. The exercise that was taking place in the Baltic during
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the summer of 2022. Now, Hersh goes on to explain how this was done in great detail.
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Remember, we told you there will be wars and there will be rumors of war.
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Another good one is never believe anything until it's been officially denied.
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Now, you can call this a lot of things. You can call this a covert operation, clandestine act.
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You can call it economic terrorism. You can call it espionage. I'm just going to call it what it is.
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This was an act of war. This was a false flag act of war against a country that America is not at war with.
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Unless you consider the fact that NATO and the United States are clearly in a hot proxy war with Russia
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on the territory of Ukraine. But if you go back to what we said here on this program,
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on Human Events Daily, and have made known in my appearances on War Room,
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it ain't just about who benefits. It's about who suffers.
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Qui bono, qui malo? Qui bono, qui malo? Who benefits, who suffers?
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And when we look at this case, who benefits from the destruction of Nord Stream 2?
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Because I can guarantee you, it ain't the Russians, and it certainly ain't the Germans.
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It's the Americans. American LNG exports to Europe have gone up exponentially since this war began,
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and we're coming up on the one-year anniversary.
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American exports of LNG. That means money in the pockets of American companies.
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It also means a complete shutdown of any economic relationship, any deals between Germany and Russia.
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This had been their goal for over a decade with this pipeline.
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They had been getting the cheap gas from Russia, and they'd been using it to try to revitalize the German manufacturing base.
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This was their way to try to gain more autonomy and gain more power and actually do something to rebuild their country.
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Now, all of that lies at the bottom of the Baltic.
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And as Victoria Nuland said, she feels gratitude.
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And we remember, of course, the President Biden and Victoria Nuland herself told us this.
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They told us in no uncertain terms that this would happen.
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They told you before the war began that Nord Stream 2 would be taken out.
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And I think everybody listening to it knew exactly what he was saying.
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That U.S. military and U.S. intelligence assets would commit to a clandestine act to take out that pipeline.
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Well, on this special, we're going to explain to you exactly how they did it.
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Operation Ivy Bells challenged the U.S. Navy to use top-of-the-line technology in order to wiretap underwater communication cables, found within the USSR's territorial waters.
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The innovative USS Halibut submarine took divers on a mission so secret that most of the crew involved were not told the truth about what they were doing.
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The U.S. collected over 10 years of valuable recordings until an American veteran betrayed his country for $35,000 from the KGB.
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So, in my very first week in Navy intelligence, they told me, don't do something.
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Why did they tell you not to do something on your very first week?
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They said, you better not read the book Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag.
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Definitely don't read the book Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag because that book, Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag, details various leaked classified operations of the United States Navy throughout the Cold War.
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And so you definitely better not go out today, march immediately to your bookstore, and pick up a copy of Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag.
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So, of course, I read the entire thing, cover to cover.
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And Operation Ivy Bells was a huge part of this.
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This was an operation that only was ended because of a traitor in the late 1980s, but it had existed for about, or I guess, 85.
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The United States Navy, using specialized divers and specialized submarine equipment, a sub that was converted, called the USS Halibut, for deep-sea diving,
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It had essentially skids placed on the bottom of it, sort of like the skids on a helicopter,
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so that it could actually park itself on the bottom of the ocean floor.
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Divers would then be able to emerge using a special capsule, head out, and wiretap a Russian undersea cable,
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so that they could steal and listen to upstream communications between members of the Russian Navy,
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Because, again, this is upstream communication.
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They had no idea that the U.S. would ever be able to tap into this.
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And, in fact, the crew of the submarine was even given a cover story.
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Only certain members, this was so top-secret and compartmentalized, which is what the C in S-C-I stands for,
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It was so compartmentalized that hardly anyone on the ship, other than the CO, the XO, and the actual team involved,
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That operation is very similar to what we saw happen here, to this covert operation,
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where we don't have the name of it at this point, so we're just going to have to call it Operation Nord Stream.
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That a working group comprised of members of the Biden administration, Victoria Newland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken.
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Now, remember, of the three members of the Biden administration,
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when we talk about geopolitics, when we talk about foreign relations,
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when I talk about the Biden administration in general,
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The fourth would be Ron Klain, but his international portfolio is nowhere near as strong as theirs.
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Remember, Jake Sullivan and Victoria Newland were deeply involved in Russiagate.
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They were deeply involved in all of these things, going back to the prior administration.
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Going back to when Barack Obama was in office as president, and Joe Biden was his VP.
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This has been an agenda that's been going on far longer than Joe Biden's been in office,
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and honestly, it takes place kind of without him.
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If they couldn't stop Nord Stream by putting leverage on the Germans,
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and we're going to do the map break here to explain this all to everybody,
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exactly where this took place in terms of the Baltic.
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So how would they be able to get to it without the Russians noticing?
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They worked with a local partner in Scandinavian countries,
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none other than Norway, according to Seymour Hersh.
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and someone who is extremely close to Washington, D.C.
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to add a research and development exercise program
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This is an exercise that's held in the Baltic Sea
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and they realized that this would be the perfect cover.