Snowden: U.S. Using Spy Balloon Craze to Distract Public from Nord Stream, Budgets
The U.S. has denied the report from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist that the Biden administration was behind the attack.
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Edward Snowden said on Monday that the Chinese “spy balloon” craze in the U.S. is an effort by the U.S. government to produce an “engineered panic” to distract from the real problems, like the Nord Stream pipeline report and budgets.
“It's not aliens,” he tweeted. “I wish it were aliens but it's not aliens it's just the ol' engineered panic, an attractive nuisance ensuring natsec reporters get assigned to investigate balloon bullshit rather than budgets or bombings (à la nordstream) until next time.”
Bloomberg, citing the latest estimates by the Congressional Budget Office, reported that the federal budget deficit is widening rapidly, “raising the risk of the Treasury running out of cash earlier than expected amid a debt-ceiling standoff.”
Seymour Hersh spoke to Radio War Nerd about his recent column on the Nord Stream blast that blames the Biden administration of carrying out the attack.
It was his first interview after his story was published that has been largely ignored by the Western propaganda media.
Hersh said he was asked about how he found the story, and said his friend told him he is an “expert at deconstructing the obvious.”
He theorized that mainstream outlets in the U.S. avoided his stories because it gives a “pro-Russian” impression.
Maria Zakharova, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, called on NATO to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the attack.
“There are more than enough facts here: the explosion of the pipeline, the presence of a motive, circumstantial evidence obtained by journalists,” she said. “So when will an emergency NATO summit meet to review the situation?”
The State Department called Hersh’s story completely false.
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Russia on Saturday called on NATO to hold an emergency meeting over the pipeline attack.
“There are more than enough facts here: the explosion of the pipeline, the presence of a motive, circumstantial evidence obtained by journalists,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the Telegram, according to Reuters. “So when will an emergency NATO summit meet to review the situation?”
The Jewish Policy Center noted at the time of the blast that the pipelines are up to 360 feet below sea level and would require submersible vehicles. Ukraine blamed the Russians. The report noted that Ukraine would stand to benefit from a damaged pipeline because it would damage Russia economically.
“The fact that this would deprive Europe against deliveries in the near future, supposing an end of sanctions, makes this an unlikely move for any country that depends on NATO for security,” the report said.
The article floated the idea that the U.S. has at least some incentive to damage the pipelines to prevent European countries from wavering in the Russian energy sanctions in the cold winter months. But that would be a potentially disastrous public relations imbroglio for Washington.
Radoslaw Sikorski, a member of the European Parliament, took to Twitter to show the gas leak in the Baltic Sea, and wrote: “Thank you, U.S.A.”
a big event I've seen near 0 coverage on:
signing of a military alliance w/ the Philippines which will result in the building of 4 military bases on the island archipelago nation creating a 'wall' of military alliances from Japan & S Korea to Australia (also in 5 eyes alliance w/ USA).
so we've seen what buttressing NATO against Russia's border has done for USA / Russia relations...I wonder how long before the USA is in a hot war with China.
I agree. LOTS of distractions for the Freakout Prone...