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=====Terrorist attack on Nordstream pipeline=====

=====Terrorist attack on Nordstream pipeline=====

[[File:Nord Stream II Lubmin.jpg|right|300px|thumb|German protest against Russian sanctions and for opening the Nord Stream pipeline on the morning before the U.S. environmental terrorist attack on the pipeline.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-blew-russian-gas-pipelines-nord-stream-1-2-says-former-polish-defense-minister</ref>]]{{See also|Nord Stream pipeline#Morganthau Plan 2.0}}

[[File:Nord Stream II Lubmin.jpg|right|300px|thumb|German protest against Russian sanctions and for opening the Nord Stream pipeline on the morning before the U.S. environmental terrorist attack on the pipeline.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-blew-russian-gas-pipelines-nord-stream-1-2-says-former-polish-defense-minister</ref>]]{{See also|Nord Stream pipeline#Morganthau Plan 2.0}}

Biden and his foreign policy team—National Security Adviser [[Jake Sullivan]], Secretary of State [[Tony Blinken]], and [[Victoria Nuland]] had been vocal and consistent in their hostility to the two pipelines, which ran side by side for 750 miles under the [[Baltic Sea]] from two different ports in northeastern Russia near the [[Estonia]]n border, passing close to the [[Danish]] island of Bornholm before ending in northern [[Germany]].

Biden and his foreign policy team—National Security Adviser [[Jake Sullivan]], Secretary of State [[Tony Blinken]], and [[Victoria Nuland]] had been vocal and consistent in their hostility to the two pipelines, which ran side by side for 750 miles under the [[Baltic Sea]] from two different ports in northeastern Russia near the [[Estonia]]n border, passing close to the [[Danish]] island of Bornholm before ending in northern Germany.

<!--The direct route, which bypassed any need to transit [[Ukraine]], had been a boon for the German [[economy]], which enjoyed an abundance of cheap Russian [[natural gas]]—enough to run its factories and heat its homes while enabling German distributors to sell excess gas, at a [[profit]], throughout [[Western Europe]]. Action that could be traced to the Biden regime would violate US promises to minimize direct conflict with Russia. Secrecy was essential.

<!--The direct route, which bypassed any need to transit [[Ukraine]], had been a boon for the German [[economy]], which enjoyed an abundance of cheap Russian [[natural gas]]—enough to run its factories and heat its homes while enabling German distributors to sell excess gas, at a [[profit]], throughout [[Western Europe]]. Action that could be traced to the Biden regime would violate US promises to minimize direct conflict with Russia. Secrecy was essential.