from Hacker News

the US Government Warned Ukraine Not to Attack NordStream 3 Months Before Attack

by bdcp on 6/13/23, 3:40 PM with 22 comments

• by wunderland on 6/13/23, 4:56 PM

  So the US government is now claiming that, no, it wasn’t them plus the Norwegians, it was actually the Ukrainians? And they’re really doubling down on this?

  This would mean the US has sent nearly $100 billion to aid a country which attacked a NATO ally.

• by nextstep on 6/13/23, 5:00 PM

  I don’t understand what the US gains by pushing this theory. It’s implausible (or maybe straight up impossible?) that a tiny sailing yacht could hold enough explosives for scuba divers to individually plant on the pipeline near Bornholm.

  Why are US Intelligence services promoting this theory? It would mean they’ve been backing a country that violated the NATO joint aggression treaty.

• by George83728 on 6/13/23, 5:01 PM

  I warned my mother that my brother was eying up the cookie jar, days before taking all those cookies for myself. Just saying.

• by lakomen on 6/13/23, 5:30 PM

  I'm just not buying it.

  I believe the US did it, because they're the only ones to gain anything from that.

  No, I don't have evidence, but neither does this article. Plus the substack article is more plausible than this lame attempt of disinformation.

• by tmaly on 6/13/23, 4:56 PM

  So who really did it?

• by meghan_rain on 6/13/23, 5:02 PM

  archive link?

• by sdfghswe on 6/13/23, 5:40 PM

  This place reeks of anti-americanism these days.

  I hope the US did bomb the nordstream, because clearly Europe is too weak to stand up to Russia.

  As a European, this is deeply embarrassing. It's embarrassing that Europe doesn't take its security seriously, and it's doubly embarrassing that it shits on the Americans.