The United States had nothing to do with the bombing, the New York Times declared after Chancellor Scholz's visit to the White House last Friday, and now the entire media world is blabbering about it. After all, why would America have been bothered by the Nord Stream gas pipeline, when it is none of their business? If the Germans block it because they don't want to do business with Putin, let them do it! If they do put it into operation in the gas-scarce winter, they will at most get away with minor sanctions in today's sanction-distributing world.
It is true that even before the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, President Biden promised to end the German-Russian gas project. And what the Americans promise, they keep. If they remember him at all, because President Biden's memory has been seriously failing lately.
Our memory is somewhat better, and many events related to the Nord Stream are preserved in it. We remember, for example, when, as one of the last acts of Mrs. Merkel's long reign, she ceremoniously handed over the Nordstream-2, a symbol of German-Russian friendship. He left the commissioning to his successor, who for some reason decided after taking the oath that it was not necessary, that the Nordstream-1 would be enough, it also has a lot of cheap Russian gas flowing through it. Then came the time for the usual annual maintenance, the gas flowed slowly or hardly at all, but Putin was responsible for that. The repair work was called a Russian sabotage operation, the purpose of which was now to prevent the Germans from receiving Russian gas. Even though they fell into their own traps there, in the West, caused by the global economy. The repair of the Siemens gas turbine was carried out in Canada by Gazprom, and due to the existing Canadian sanctions against Russia, it was not possible to return the part necessary for operation. When the Germans found a workaround, President Zelensky threatened Canada for violating the sanctions regime. Honest Ukrainians will never accept such violations!
Then, on a balmy day at the end of September, without any precedent, gas began to leak into the North Sea. It was spotted by the Swedish Coast Guard three days after the bombing. Sabotage action, they said, and Russia was immediately accused, this is the Russian response to the sanctions, bringing the winter cold to Europe by withdrawing gas, it costs what it costs !
Putin's image of the enemy took on such dimensions that logical arguments no longer mattered. According to the Russian version, it was an international operation to cut the last connecting thread between Europe and Russia. There were other accounts that the Americans did it with the help of the English or Norwegians, or that they did it themselves, but no one suspected the Ukrainians.
The secret services set up an international investigative team, but nothing about the case was leaked. One had the feeling that they wanted to forget him because it would be embarrassing if the truth came out. A Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist exploded an information bomb exactly one month ago. According to Seymour Hersh, US Navy divers placed explosive devices under the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline last June, and the decision on the operation was made by President Joe Biden himself. I also wrote about the naval covert operation immediately after the bombing, but it was not newsworthy. The world doesn't read Hungarian.
Now, suddenly, the newspaper says that Ukrainians presumably blew up the gas pipeline.
Already in August, the American authorities noticed a mixed Russian-Ukrainian team, who at the time were detonating in the very center of Moscow. They wanted to kill the well-known Russian nationalist, Putin-friendly Alexander Dugin, but his daughter Daria fell victim instead. The terrorists - if we can call the detachment made up of Russian opponents of Putin and Ukrainian citizens - are connected to the Ukrainian secret services, and it is suspected that the Ukrainian government knows about them, and even commits terrorist acts on its orders. The American government has also warned Kiev to stop such actions, but if a terrorist group is independent, then the democratic Ukrainian government cannot intervene. Of course, we cannot know for sure whether they are behind the attacks against Nord Stream. These are all just the findings of American intelligence.
There is, however, a nice round story that was rounded up by investigative journalists. Once upon a time there was a company based in Poland that made its living by renting out yachts. He traded not only with his own ships, but also with others, such as Ukrainian-owned ships. At the beginning of September, the small Ukrainian yacht rented from them by the group of six who wanted to dive in the North Sea moored in the port of Rostock. In addition to the captain, two divers and two diving assistants, the female gender was represented by a doctor. No one in the harbor noticed when a van pulled up next to the yacht to load the equipment needed for the planned operation. Diving suit, half a ton of explosives, tools, etc. The small ship made its way to Denmark, first in the direction of the German Wieck and then the Danish island of Christianso. Their behavior did not attract attention, no one was interested in who they were and where they came from. That is why their names and nationalities are still unclear, as they presented professionally forged passports everywhere. An anchor was dropped above the gas lines, and then the divers, with the help of the assistants, placed the explosives. At the end of the promotion, the boat was returned and no attention was paid to cleaning. Investigators later found traces of explosives on a table in the cabin.
This story is lame as it is. The North and East Seas are the most monitored areas precisely because of Russia, but neither the Danish nor the Swedish Coast Guard detected any suspicious movements. It is technically and logistically unimaginable at such a depth to carry out such an explosion on the part of a six-man crew of a yacht. Exploding several pipes of a safe, large pipeline system is a complicated operation. It requires a lot of detailed knowledge, experience and preparation. According to experts, such an action can only be carried out by special military units. Let's not even talk about the logical fallacy! Leaving a trail is a very dilettante thing, but in a covert operation it is a deliberate distraction and evasion. It is no coincidence that investigative journalists - employees of the very left-wing Die Zeit and German public service TV channels - took it upon themselves to "leak" the story. According to the prosecutor's office leading the investigation, it is not yet time for the public, this is what the NATO Secretary General admits, and the politicians are trying to back out of the case for the time being. The suspected Ukrainian government also distanced itself.
One thing is for sure, both gas pipelines were blown up, thus causing enormous economic damage to Europe and primarily to Germany. Norway and the United States did well. The Russians almost don't care. They looked for another market, and Europe continues to buy much more expensive liquefied gas from them. It might have been in Ukraine's interest in September that neither Germany nor anyone else would think of buying gas from this pipeline in the winter.
It is possible to think about the reality of the story thrown on the media market, the news that broke out after the discussion between Biden and Scholz. Aren't they just preparing to withdraw Ukraine's support in this way? Or will the Ukrainian threads be decisive evidence of the Russian sabotage action in the next phase of the investigation? Or is it simply a distraction? Because the world is convinced that the United States is behind the bombing.
Source: Magyar Hírlap
Featured image: MTI/AP/Danish Armed Forces
