In a case that won’t go uncommented in Germany, Nord Stream has lost a legal action against Lloyds and Arch insurers in a British court, which ruled that the damages are the consequence of war and therefore not covered by the insurers policies, the Berliner Zeitung reports.
The court mentioned Ukraine, the USA and Russia as all having motivation for the attack, and even mentioned Seymour Hersh’s investigative report, in order to argue that, even if, like Hersh wrote, the attack was planned before the war, the war made it “a thinkable action.”
Such an opinion was delivered by the expert appointed by the insurers, Dominic Donald. Donald is a Senior Advisor at the geopolitical consulting firm Herminius. He began his career in the British Army after completing a master’s degree at Oxford. He wrote foreign and defense policy editorials for The Times, taught officers at British military academies, and earned a PhD from King’s College London.
