{"id":1663061,"date":"2022-09-28T17:50:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663061"},"modified":"2022-09-28T17:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:50:57","slug":"senior-pentagon-official-us-absolutely-not-involved-in-nord-stream-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-pentagon-official-us-absolutely-not-involved-in-nord-stream-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Pentagon Official: US \u2018Absolutely Not Involved\u2019 in Nord Stream Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenior-pentagon-official-us-absolutely-not-involved-in-nord-stream-damage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663061&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A senior U.S. official said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-united-states\">United States<\/a> was not involved in the damage to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nord-stream\">Nord Stream<\/a> 1 and 2 pipelines carrying Russian gas earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a briefing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2022-09-28\/u-s-military-official-jury-still-out-on-nord-stream-pipeline-sabotage\">reporters<\/a> on condition of anonymity on Wednesday, the Pentagon official said that \u201cthe jury is still out\u201d on what actually happened to the pipelines that carry Russian natural gas to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of our partners, I think, have determined or believe it is sabotage,\u201d the official said. \u201cI\u2019m just\u2014I\u2019m not at the point where I can tell you one way or the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether any U.S. involvement could be ruled out, the official <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenGriffinFNC\/status\/1575213239000240128\">said<\/a> that \u201cwe were absolutely not involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Germany and the European Union have suspected that the\u00a0damage to two pipelines was an act of sabotage. The incident was reported Monday evening as the lines were seen spewing natural gas into the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Danish Defense Minister Morten Bodskov met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to discuss the damage to the pipelines on Wednesday. Both said it was an act of sabotage, although they did not publicly say who could be responsible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is reason to be concerned about the security situation in the Baltic Sea region,\u201d Bodskov said in a statement to media outlets. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-russia\">Russia<\/a> has a significant military presence in the Baltic Sea region, and we expect them to continue their saber rattling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No country or nation-state has claimed responsibility for the incident. No Western country has pointed the blame at Russia, although some officials have posted to social media that Moscow was behind the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll available information indicates those leaks are the result of a deliberate act,\u201d Josep Borrell, the European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief, said in a statement. He continued, \u201cAny deliberate disruption of European energy infrastructure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior U.S. official said the United States was not involved in the damage to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines carrying Russian gas earlier this week. Speaking at a briefing with reporters on condition of anonymity on Wednesday, the Pentagon official said that \u201cthe jury is still out\u201d on what actually happened to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}