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that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the
bottom of the sea."
The source had a much more streetwise view of Biden's decision to
sabotage more than 1500 miles of Gazprom pipeline as winter
approached. "Well," he said, speaking of the President, "I gotta admit
the guy has a pair of balls. He said he was going to do it, and he
did."
Asked why he thought the Russians failed to respond, he said
cynically, "Maybe they want the capability to do the same things the
U.S. did.
"It was a beautiful cover story," he went on. "Behind it was a covert operation that placed experts in the field and equipment that operated
on a covert signal.
"The only flaw was the decision to do it."
Quite interesting theory.
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