“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.