Last June, specialist 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, according to investigative journalist Seymour Hersch.
In this tale, which reads like a movie script, we learn how the US connived with the Norwegians and the Germans to deprive Putin and his cronies of the easy money provided by gas exported through Nordstream I and II – their major trans-European gas pipes.