{"id":1122018,"date":"2023-01-28T08:11:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T13:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/watch-top-us-official-hails-nord-stream-2-sabotage-in-senate-testimony\/1122018\/"},"modified":"2023-01-28T08:11:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T13:11:31","slug":"watch-top-us-official-hails-nord-stream-2-sabotage-in-senate-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/watch-top-us-official-hails-nord-stream-2-sabotage-in-senate-testimony\/1122018\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Top US Official Hails Nord Stream 2 Sabotage In Senate Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Watch: Top US Official Hails Nord Stream 2 Sabotage In Senate Testimony<\/span><\/p>\n

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Does this constitute a fresh official US confession of sorts?<\/p>\n

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland during a Thursday Senate hearing positively celebrated the destruction of the\u00a0Nord Stream 1\u00a0and\u00a0Nord Stream 2\u00a0natural gas pipelines, due to a sabotage attack on\u00a0September 26 of last year. Below she’s seen in live Senate testimony video\u00a0 praising the act which turned NS2 into a “hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea” <\/strong>– in her words…<\/p>\n

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At a Senate hearing, top US diplomat Victoria Nuland celebrated the Nord Stream 2 pipeline bombing:<\/p>\n

“Senator Cruz, like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.” pic.twitter.com\/KS5OM4N165<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Mat\u00e9 (@aaronjmate) January 27, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the hearing, Nuland was questioned by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) over the issue of past sanctions against Nord Stream 2 and how effective she thinks they would have been. Nuland and Cruz were having an exchange based on hypotheticals in hindsight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That’s when she made the surprise comments, offering the following perspective… “Like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say,<\/strong> a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea,” <\/strong>Nuland said with a partial grin on her face.<\/p>\n

“Gratified” is not a word we’ve heard too often coming out of Western officials to describe their perspective on the sabotage event – certainly not in Europe at least.<\/p>\n

Nuland went on to claim, however, that she had previously been pressing hard to “prevent this war” in negotiations with Russia.<\/p>\n

See the full exchange between Sen. Cruz and Nuland here:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But given her obvious glee at Nord Stream 2 having been turned into a “a hunk of metal” after a sabotage blast by an unknown entity, we highly doubt she ever wanted “peace” at all… actually quite the opposite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russia, and even in some cases UN advisers and diplomats<\/a>\u00a0have pointed the finger at the US and its allies, saying it was only Washington that had everything to gain from NS2 being permanently disabled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 01\/28\/2023 – 12:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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