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Hersh: The US definitely blew up the pipeline.

Not the Brits, not the Poles... the US. So not even a modicum of plausible deniability. Hersh is many things, but a hack he is not. Well, no evidence of that so far. We'll see how this all turns out. I'm guessing in 20-50 years and then all the people who denied it then will say, ah but that's in the past and everyone knew it. But we didn't. So Hersh has been effectively sidelined in the US. Again, an independent journalist has been completely sidelined. Why is that? You could make a million different reasons, but the intel state/deep state (and that includes Trump etc) is all in against this kind of reporting IMO. So he can't get a hearing in America anymore. Shocking stuff tbf, but like Assange, you won't hear anything in the US MSM. 

Again, this "let's send the world to WW3 before we even take a slight hit in profits" thinking is insane but is on both sides (and given what "the squad" has done about the war, there is no where in either party that seems sane):

Opposition to Nord Stream 2 flared on the eve of the Biden inauguration in January 2021, when Senate Republicans, led by Ted Cruz of Texas, repeatedly raised the political threat of cheap Russian natural gas during the confirmation hearing of Blinken as Secretary of State. By then a unified Senate had successfully passed a law that, as Cruz told Blinken, “halted [the pipeline] in its tracks.” There would be enormous political and economic pressure from the German government, then headed by Angela Merkel, to get the second pipeline online.

Would Biden stand up to the Germans? Blinken said yes, but added that he had not discussed the specifics of the incoming President’s views. “I know his strong conviction that this is a bad idea, the Nord Stream 2,” he said. “I know that he would have us use every persuasive tool that we have to convince our friends and partners, including Germany, not to move forward with it.”

A few months later, as the construction of the second pipeline neared completion, Biden blinked. That May, in a stunning turnaround, the administration waived sanctions against Nord Stream AG, with a State Department official conceding that trying to stop the pipeline through sanctions and diplomacy had “always been a long shot.” Behind the scenes, administration officials reportedly urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, by then facing a threat of Russian invasion, not to criticize the move.

There were immediate consequences. Senate Republicans, led by Cruz, announced an immediate blockade of all of Biden’s foreign policy nominees and delayed passage of the annual defense bill for months, deep into the fall. Politico later depicted Biden’s turnabout on the second Russian pipeline as “the one decision, arguably more than the chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan, that has imperiled Biden’s agenda.” 

Great. Be safe out there. 


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