‘They Can’t Be That Stupid’: Journalist Slams NYT For Claiming U.S. Officials Suggested Pro-Ukraine Group Attacked Nord Steam Pipelines
Seymour Hersh was an investigative journalist who claimed last month that U.S. Navy undercover divers had remotely triggered explosives at the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. She burst into laughter when she heard the New York Times claims. “pro-Ukranian group” The attack was carried out.
“What? That can’t be true,” Hersh claimed, in a Disclose.tv report tweet. “They can’t be that stupid. Are they that stupid?”
According to The Times, U.S. intelligence personnel suggested an unnamed “pro-Ukranian group” Last September’s terrorist attack on Nord Stream 2 in the Baltic Sea. This pipeline connected natural gas from Russia with Western Europe. The pipelines sustained severe damage in Sweden and Denmark during September when natural gas was released toward the surface.
Officials claimed that neither the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky nor the national government participated in the attack, but declined to reveal additional details about the intelligence. Anonymous officials, cited by The Times, did not give details on the dark group which they claimed blew up that pipeline. However, they maintained the attack was not a result of the United States or the United Kingdom.
“Oh my God — ‘Intelligence suggests Ukranian …,'” Hersh spoke before breaking down into laughter. “Oh, my God. Oh my God.”
Hersh released an in-depth report on Substack, alleging that undercover U.S. Navy divers placed explosives on the pipeline last summer during training exercises.
The report, based on testimony of an unnamed source claimed that President Joe Biden saw the pipelines in a means by which Russian President Vladimir Putin might use the natural gas supplies to fuel his territorial ambitions.
Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the White House said that the idea that the United States had destroyed the pipelines is not true. “false and complete fiction,” Tammy Thorp, spokesperson for the CIA, said that it was “completely and utterly false” Hersh asked her for a comment.
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Some European officials suggested that Russia might have damaged its pipelines. Others disagree. blamed The United States.
Since more than a decade ago, geopolitical conflict has been centered around the Nord Stream 2 pipelines. As a retaliatory action against Western Europe, Russia halted Nord Stream 1 shipments months into the conflict. Germany, however, blocked Nord Stream 2 from initiating shipments just days prior to the start of the war.
Joe Biden, the President of the United States warned that war was imminent. “there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2” If Russia crosses the Ukrainian border, and insists to speak with a journalist there “we will be able” You can bring an “end” To the system.
Although sanctions were initially lifted by the commander-in chief against Nord Stream 2’s Russian-owned subsidiary, he reimposed them shortly before the invasion began.
Nord Stream 2 had been destroyed. Secretary of State Antony Blinken referred to the phenomenon as a “tremendous opportunity” To end European dependence upon Russian energy. Even though no natural gas was being transported through the pipelines, protestors in Germany demanded that the flow of energy be restored as electric prices rose over twentyfold. The possibility that Germany lifted sanctions at the right time was eliminated by the sabotage of the pipelines.
Hersh is an investigative journalist and won a Pulitzer Prize in recognition of exposing the My Lai Massacre.
“I’ve written a couple of things about it,” He stated. “I’m going to write something next week about it, and that’s the way I do it.”
UPDATE – U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh says, “they can’t be that stupid” In response to NYT article that claimed a “pro-Ukrainian group” Activated the Nord Stream Attacks. pic.twitter.com/SB2RK9Xekk
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Ben Zeisloft contributed this report.
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