Russia Threatens Open Ocean Chaos if Nord Stream Attackers Aren't Brought to Justice
Russia Threatens Open Ocean Chaos if Nord Stream Attackers Aren't Brought to Justice
The White House has denied a Seymour Hersh report that blames the Biden administration for the attack.
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Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s ambassador to the UN, said he wants a complete investigation into the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines after the publication of Seymour Hersh’s blockbuster article pinning blame squarely on the Biden administration and after comments from State Department officials like Victoria Nuland who publicly celebrated the attack.
Nebenzia referred to Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland as the “godmother of the anti-constitutional coup in Ukraine.” (We go into great detail about her history here.)
This is more than just a smoking gun that detectives love in Hollywood blockbusters. It’s a basic principle of justice; everything is in your hands, and we can resolve this today.
Nebenzia told the UN Security Council that European countries cannot be trusted to carry out a fair investigation and he wants the UN to probe the attack. He said if the perpetrators are not found and brought to justice, it could become open season on undersea infrastructure for military strikes, RT, the Russian news outlet, reported.
He said such a scenario would cause “chaos and terrible damage to all of humanity.”
The attack was massive and released about 778 million cubic meters of methane gas, which was the biggest burst of the greenhouse gas on record, Al Jazeera noted.
Nebenzia told the UN that there was “proof that explosives had been planted” near the pipeline during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exercise in the summer of 2022, referring to Hersh’s report.
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“This journalist is telling the truth,” he said. “This is more than just a smoking gun that detectives love in Hollywood blockbusters. It’s a basic principle of justice; everything is in your hands, and we can resolve this today.”
John Kelley, the U.S. ambassador, accused Russia of trying to distract from the one-year anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine.
“That is what our focus should be on,” he said. “Russia desperately wants to change the subject.”
Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, said regret set in at the “highest level of secret intelligence agencies” after the bombing, which is why he’s learning so much about the mission.
He said the “operational people, the people who do kinetic things for the United States,” at first, liked the idea of loading the pipelines with explosives, and saw it as a useful weapon that President Biden could use in negotiations in the future.
“But at some point, once the Russians went in, and then when the operation was done, this became increasingly odious to the people who did it,” he said. “These are well-trained people; they are in the highest level of secret intelligence agencies. They turned on the project. They thought this was an insane thing to do. And within a week, or three or four days after the bombing, after they did what they were ordered to, there was a lot of anger and hostility. This is obviously reflected in the fact that I’m learning so much about it.”
He said even Biden was trepidatious about carrying out such an audacious attack that jeopardized U.S.-German relations. But Biden is not around “deep thinkers.”
“I know this sounds strange. I don’t think that [Secretary of State] Antony Blinken and some others in the administration are deep thinkers,” he told The Wire, an Indian nonprofit news and opinion website.
Hersh noted that days after the explosion, Blinken addressed reporters and called the situation a “tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy” and “take away from (Putin) the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs.”
The Biden administration has rejected Hersh’s story as completely false.
Anyone who thinks the US wasn't behind the destruction of Nord Stream is either a sycophant of US foreign policy or, as my mother-in-law used to say, too dumb to pound sand. Whether Hersh is 100% accurate about all of the players may be questionable, as I personally believe that the UK would have played some role, whether in planning, logistics, or implementation.
Revenge for Russian interference, in Syria and support of Iran. Their by thwarting Israel’s pernicious intentions in the region. America is Israel's muscle.