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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Yep.
I just read the entire story. Looks like Hersh has got the goods. Brilliant plan by the military. Again, lack of diplomatic will on Biden’s part led to this.
Full on act of war. No question about it. I’m shocked Russia hasn’t launched something far worse against NATO in the way of an EMP attack or something of that level.
There’s another interesting tidbit - The Chinese Balloon:
Apparently we have some really good new radar, very fancy stuff. We need it because we lost some key listening posts in China.
Then a balloon floats past this whiz bang radar and moves all the way across the US, completing its mission.
This, in my opinion, is one of the most important stories of the decade, and certainly of Biden’s incompetent term.
Are you one of those "am I being detained? I am traveling, not driving" nuts?
The preamble to the United States constitution literally starts out, "We the People of the United States..."
If the Constitution calls us the United States (which it does, throughout) then I think the shorthand is ok.
Hersch has no history of anti-American. His history is anti Deep State.
This is Snowden territory. And Wikileaks. Truth gets out the Deep State didn’t want out.
This is about as abusive a backstab of Germany as there can be. The end of that alliance.
Whoever blew up Putin’s gas pipeline. Thanks!
So... the US (we) took an active direct act of War against Russia. I hope we don’t get nuked. Russia has already decided. They will either win in Ukraine or they will nuke us all. (They are only nuking a county that worships satan on prime time) Nice job Joe! For the three letter agencies monitoring this post. You are the problem, you rigged the 2020 election and no one believes you... and you are going to get us all killed... your kids will be killed as well because Joe Biden is an illegitimate President... Good job three letter agencies, you guys are great... How bout this... stop rigging elections so we have real accountability.
Of course its a lie. But by his terms he used it may not technically be a lie. We have lawyerspeak orwellian people skirting truth to outright lying to us on tv and press conferences everyday. But they almost never answer directly. Deflection, answering a strawman question theyd rather answer, using explicit terms that give them wiggle room later.
Legal wiggle room. But not moral. That is the problem with that Col. Flagg routine.
Tactics like that have given America a reputation for dishonesty.
“Are you saying that, according to this story, that US Navy Divers planted the bombs but that Norway detonated them?”
Yep, according to the article. Obviously Norway had some kind of signal from the US before pulling the trigger.
At 85 he’s way past his prime. He should be enjoying his final years at the old folks home instead of putting out this nonsense.
The whole story published....has around a hundred facts. I’d suggest at least five sources, with different angles of the story.
My impression...I don’t think Biden fully understood the whole plan or implications. His Chief of Staff leaving now? I think he was tied into the whole plan.
Its why people love their country, but despise their government.
you don’t know what you are talking about
It was the Germans who attacked Pearl Harbor....
the take I have absorbed reading up more is that many believe this is intentional misdirection - mainly to keep either the UK (or poland)? out of the blame game.
The US has no problem bragging about anything like this.
I am reminded of the alleged Truss text message, ‘it’s done.’ that does not appear to fit into the Hersch version, nor does the UK in any way.
Still tied to Moscow
Victoria Nuland Gratified Nord Stream is a Hunk of Metal at the Bottom of the Sea
Anthony Blinken on Nord Stream: It Is a Tremendous Opportunity
“Hersch has no history of anti-American”
Which of his wonderful stories hasn’t benefitted Moscow?
The Deep State is what he opposes. In all those previous triumphs. It is more your enemy than Moscow.
The My Lai reveal was Deep State?
I think you’re asking if the Deep State would have wanted My Lai kept quiet, and ditto Abu Graib. Of course they would. The DS doesn’t want the public to ever see any indication that The System condones horrors.
The guy is a hero, just like Assange.
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