Posted on 02/08/2023 5:08:04 PM PST by bitt
WASHINGTON — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has alleged US Navy divers laid bombs that destroyed the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea last September, drawing a denial from the Pentagon Wednesday.
Hersh, who scooped journalism’s top award more than five decades ago for exposing the My Lai massacre of Vietnamese civilians by US troops in 1968, cited an unnamed source in reporting on Substack that Americans planted remotely triggered explosives that wrecked three of the four pipelines built to carry natural gas from Russia to Europe.
Hersh, 85, went on to claim that the Navy conducted the operation under the cover of a NATO maritime exercise, BALTOPS 22.
In a short statement, Pentagon spokesman Marine Corps Lt. Col. Garron J. Garn told The Post “the United States was not involved in the Nord Stream explosion,” reiterating the Defense Department’s response to the same question in October.
Swedish officials suspected the blasts were the result of “gross sabotage,” and some Western officials were quick to blame the attacks on Moscow as it blocked gas supplies to Europe in response to sanctions over last year’s invasion of Ukraine.
“These are deliberate actions, not an accident,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at the time. “The situation is as serious as it gets.”
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in response to Hersh’s report that Moscow has “repeatedly expressed” its belief that the US and NATO were involved in the explosions.
Prior to the invasion, President Biden had threatened that the Nord Stream 2 project connecting Russia and Germany would not move forward if an attack took place, causing some to suspect US involvement when the pipelines exploded seven months later. see also Nord Pipeline Sweden finds traces of explosives near damaged Nord Stream pipeline: ‘Gross sabotage’
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And I have it on reliable authority that Japan attacked the US naval fleet at Pearl Harbor.
I am as convinced of both.
The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...
journalist Seymour Hersh agrees with Moscow...
Who would have guessed?
If true, a stupid and reckless move by the Biden administration. It’s casus belli, making us direct participants in war instead of merely financing a proxy.
But nobody really believed that the Russians did it to themselves so the question always was who. I am surprised if this were true and that CIA didn’t outsource it.
A lot of us feel this is a possibility but it should take more than an “unnamed source” to make this kind of allegation.
Journalist? The guy is an anti-American, Marxist tool. I don’t believe a word he says. Pulitzer Prise means your reporting conforms to the far-left narrative.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Not a regular follower of Mr. Hersh, but he is credited with breaking:
1. My Lai Massacre - denied by the gov, later turned out to be 100% accurate, so the gov lied [Got a Pulitzer when it meant something]
2. Various advancements in the Watergate story - denied by the gov, later turned out to be 100% accurate, so the gov lied
3. Abu Graib - denied by the gov, later turned out to be 100% accurate, so the gov lied
Now sticking his neck out on the US/Norway operation to sabotage three of four pipelines, causing massive environmental damage and an overt act of war against Germany and Russia. Pearl Harbor level. Story is full of details so if he’s lying, then wow!, what a whopper. But then again he’s not the proven liar in this exchange, now is he?
NOT buying this story.
His book, on Jack Kennedy’s presidency, THE DARK SIDE OF CAMELOT, is a valuable book but it is not a well-rounded look at the full scope of Kennedy’s scandals. The incidents, corruption, and moral flippancy that it does cover provides a worthwhile look. Herch’s non-conservative background gives credence to the book as a cited reference when dealing with liberals and Kennedy sycophants.
Europeans are scratching their heads trying to figure out who their true enemies are. It might take a while, but they will.
“Pentagon spokesman Marine Corps Lt. Col. Garron J. Garn told The Post “the United States was not involved in the Nord Stream explosion,”
Disgusting day in the history of the Marine Corps for a commissioned officer to stand at the podium and lie.
I believe Ukraine had the greatest interest in its targeting.
This was pretty obvious from the get go.
Watching to see if there is any collaboration on the story.
Technically he may he correct.
He said “United States”.
Not “United States of America”, nor “United States military forces”. Just “United States”.
There is technically no such thing as the “United States”. Its the “United States of America”.
Just saying, this is what they do to claim technically they didn’t lie. Words are chosen very explicitly and deliberately.
France 1789, circa 1945-1950. Romania 1989.
Usually doesn't end well for the ringleaders and their toadies.
Area of sabotage is within NATO waters, flanked by 7-8 NATO countries, and is the main waterway for the russkie navy to the Atlantic and is under comprehensive monitoring by NATO.
While no evidence has been revealed which country is responsible, the russkies were cleared a week or two ago, which is consistent with not wanting to destroy your own infrastructure. Duh.
So doubters, if not NATO [and NATO does only as the US directs], then who? Or are you now going to say it could’ve been mermaids or a sea monster?
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