Polish MEP Thanks USA for Sabotaging the Nord Stream Pipeline

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Actually, a task force of the Royal Liechtenstein Navy was doing ASW (anti-submarine warfare) training in the area. Turns out that the calibration on the RLN's new model of depth charges is a ways off...

But also:

"An expeditionary detachment of US Navy ships led by the universal amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge days ago was in the Baltic Sea

It was 30 km from the site of the alleged sabotage on the Nord Stream-1 gas pipeline and 50 km from the threads of Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline"

(from: https://twitter.com/azmilitary1/status/1574758898086694912)

No mere MEP, Sikorksi is the ex Polish Defence Minster and Anne Applebaum's - staff writer at The Atlantic and prominent anti-Putin critic - husband to boot. Pretty wild thing to tweet

Seems like somebody with his credentials would be more circumspect in his statements. Not to say that American officials are reliable models of decorum...

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