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09 Feb 2023, 13:43 GMT+10
Joe Biden has earned the title by ordering the destruction of Europe's energy infrastructure, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin claims
Speaker of the Russian parliament Vyacheslav Volodin has branded US President Joe Biden a "terrorist" after a report by iconic American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh blamed Washington for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines last year.
Volodin said on Thursday that Biden's State of the Union address, in which he claimed that the US was "a nation that stands as a beacon to the world," reminded him of "statements by the leaders of the Third Reich."
The ramifications of this "ideology of exceptionalism" were uncovered in the investigation by Hersh, the Russian MP wrote in a post on Telegram.
The State Duma speaker was referring to a report published by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on Wednesday, in which he claimed that the US was behind the explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines last September. According to an informed source who talked to Hersh, explosives were planted at the key pipelines in the Baltic Sea back in June 2022 by US Navy divers under the guise of a NATO exercise. They were later detonated remotely.
Nord Stream 1 and 2 had been important routes for the delivery of Russian gas to Europe through Germany.
"If [Harry S.] Truman became a criminal, who used nuclear weapons against civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then Biden became a terrorist, who ordered the destruction of the energy infrastructure of his strategic partners: Germany, France, the Netherlands," Volodin said.
The sabotage of the pipelines by the Americans was "an act of intimidation of its vassals, who decided to develop their economy in the interests of their own citizens," he wrote.
The revelations by Hersh should be grounds for an international investigation to "bring Biden and his accomplices to justice," and to make sure that the nations affected by this "terrorist attack" are paid compensation, Volodin added.
The Biden administration has denied the report by Hersh, with the National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson calling it "utterly false and complete fiction."
The Russian authorities have for months been pointing to the fact that the only side that benefited from Nord Stream being rendered inoperable was the US, which saw its supplies of liquified natural gas to Europe increase massively following the sabotage.
(RT.com)
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