“THE TRUTH THAT WASN'T A LIE”

Why did journalist Seymour Hersh's article on the attacks on the Nord Stream I and II gas pipelines annoy the US Establishment?

 

By Sidney Hey

The first light of the morning of 26 September 2022 would reveal that in the middle of the Baltic Sea, a few kilometres from the Finnish coast and the European continent, the water showed a gigantic bubbling of pressurised bubbles rising from the depths, which was none other than the gas leaking from the Nord Stream I and II pipelines coming from Russia.

Thus, the gas stopped reaching the German distribution platforms and thus all German citizens (including Merkel and Scholz) and the rest of Europeans. Even with one's eyes closed one could guess what had happened.

The situation was immediately clear: sabotage on each of these pipelines forced the Russian company GAZPROM to turn off the gas supply to Europe.  The White House was quick to point the finger at Russia as the culprit even though it made no sense at all. Why would the Russians destroy one of their most important economic sources, for an energy war against Europe? Unsurprisingly, Washington's European political cronies - especially those in Downing Street - were ratifying this version. The truth was that this deprived all European citizens of this resource, unleashing a chain of unprecedented social, economic and productive consequences.

Although European governments and especially European Union officials immediately lined up behind Washington's headless hypothesis and the Western media (as always) amplified it, ordinary citizens realised almost immediately who had really been behind the attack.

Within hours of the publication by renowned researcher Seymour Hersh pointing the finger at the US and the Norwegians as responsible for blowing up these pipelines, Washington was in a frenzy from the president's office in the White House to the Pentagon and the State Department. Confidential sources within hours of the release noted that the angry, distorted faces of Biden and Blinken (the main instigators of the bombing) said it all. Similarly, Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Machiavellian national security adviser Jake Sullivan, both of whom were notoriously upset, jumped into their cars and fled contact with the press. As had happened in the past, Hersh did it again and got the federal government in trouble.

But in the current circumstances not even the much-lauded journalist and investigator is safe from government manipulation.

Despite this, the first thing you should do is not to believe this supposed dismay of the US government because it is also quite possible that Hersh's source is not as transparent and good as it appears to be. Even if the media does not show it, the internal bickering and clashes are fierce. The tensions between the Biden administration and the Republican Party to stop the war have poisoned the domestic political environment so it is not unreasonable that Hersh is being used as a means to operate. On top of this, there is a tug of war within the US deep state over what is happening in Ukraine.

No one doubts that it was the Americans who benefited (especially commercially) from this sabotage. They had the opportunity during the joint naval exercises in the Baltic Sea in June 2022, where tactical divers were operating. Nor that the US is conducting a hybrid war against the Russian Federation that has reached dangerous extremes. The precedent that further incriminates their involvement came from the mouth of Joe Biden himself a few months before this event when he assured that the US would eliminate the pipelines. This was a move aimed more at reprimanding the Germans (because of their pragmatism) who were more hesitant to play Washington's game than to harm Russia. The novelty of this open secret is undoubtedly the mention of Norway as a party involved. If this is indeed the case, the Nordic country's involvement could encompass other very delicate situations that some sources have described as enigmatic.

At the time of the explosions inside Russia, some sources said they were Ukrainian saboteurs who had been able to infiltrate across the borders. Others that they were CIA sleeper agents who had entered in 2014 in the midst of the crisis that followed the coup in Kiev, or even Russian rogue elements recruited for good pay for the job, and others that they were cells of a mysterious CIA-allied intelligence agency that possessed the up-to-date knowledge and manpower to go unnoticed in Russian society. The appearance of this piece of information in Hersh's source could be the element that unravels that mystery.

From a political point of view, the attack executed in international waters but deliberately affecting foreign interests, including those of its EU partners and friends, the Norwegian involvement demonstrates a commitment and determination that would be useful for more daring actions within the borders of the Federation. In this sense, those in Washington and Brussels must have wondered what Oslo could not fail to do for us?

Norway is one of NATO's strategic members and as such one of the most interested in curbing Russia's influence in the Arctic. This, of course, is what was thought and discussed inside the Norwegian government, as they have little interest in provoking Russia with direct involvement in the Pentagon's hybrid war in Ukraine.

When the pipeline incident was discovered, the Norwegian government expressed surprise and even increased naval patrols over its port infrastructure, casting doubt on the nature of the attack. In the latter sense, what the Norwegians intended to point out was that Russia had been the cause of the attack (self-inflicted attack) by reporting that counter-intelligence had arrested a possible Russian undercover agent and other Russian nationals for flying drones that crossed into Norwegian airspace.

But despite these actions and attempts to mislead, the truth was impossible to cover up and was probably already known to the Russian SVR. The placement of the explosives by the Americans in the first stage and the remote detonation by the Norwegians put an end to the mysteries and speculation that the Western media tried to install. 

It is therefore not surprising that the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) is the CIA's ace up its sleeve in the terrorist attacks within the Federation, although this would only be news to Western public opinion. The Kremlin was already aware of Norway's active involvement in the situation in Ukraine, especially in the Arctic, and began clandestine operations to disrupt espionage networks within their respective nations.

There is no doubt that Seymour Hersh's article is the ratification of a truth intuited by the global collective, and what most reinforces the credibility of what has been exposed is the attacks and the wave of discredit that the traditional Western media - servants of power - have received for it.