The Nordstream-II pipeline was completed in September 2021. Prior to the war-initiation crisis of 22-2-22, decisive steps were taken by the USA which made the conflict necessary. These have been revealed in the Seymour Hersh article of February 8th, ‘How America took out the Nordstream-II Pipeline.’
Completion of the pipeline presented the most extreme danger to NATO, maybe in its entire history: that peace would break out and goodwill develop between Germany and Russia. Clearly, that could not be allowed! NATO existed to stop that very thing from happening. A new war turned out to be the answer and the logic was as follows.
in January of 2021, Jake Sullivan in Washington convened a meeting to discuss this dire state of affairs, in a room next to the White House. It included Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the State and Treasury Departments. Their discussion quickly focussed upon how to take out the pipeline, but the action would have to have ‘deniability.’ continue reading…