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The Biden administration has justified the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines with the need for Europe's support for NATO in its proxy war against Russia, Pulitzer Prize-winning US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has told RT host Afshin Rattansi in an exclusive interview. "That was the rationale for the mission: to make sure that Europe and Western Europe keep supporting NATO and keep funneling arms into what is clearly a proxy war against Russia," Hersh said. According to the investigative journalist, the plan was hatched in late 2021, before the escalation of hostilities in Ukraine. When Biden and Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland both publicly spoke about “stopping” and “ending” Nord Stream 2, Hersh claimed the intelligence community was upset, “because it was supposed to be a covert operation.”

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“I don't think that the US and Europe can move against African integration… And I think that Africa's integration will find strong support from China, from Russia, from India, from Brazil, in other words, from the BRICS leading countries, and so from South Africa. So I think the economic integration in Africa is so needed and will be so powerful that it really is likely to continue,” Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist, told Sputnik. ? Listen to more of Sachs’ analysis in our podcast New Rules: https://sputnikglobe.com/20230913/us-economic-war-on-russia-and-china-africas-revolt-against-neocolonialism-1113339533.html ? Watch the full episode of our show on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v3harsu-us-economic-war-on-russia-and-china-africas-revolt-against-neocolonialism.html