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Written by Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Associations, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert
Western investigations into what “really” happened in the Nord Stream explosion appear to have been concluded. Instead of a complex intelligence operation using appropriate naval equipment and sophisticated sabotage tactics, it is believed that it was all just the result of a “drunken evening” when Ukrainian officers simply decided to destroy the Kremlin’s “funding source” through a rented jet. The ridiculous Western narrative on the matter shows how the mainstream media has lost respect for its own audience, treating the public as complete idiots.
According to a recent article published by the Wall Street Journal, the Nord Stream sabotage operation is entirely Ukrainian responsibility. The act was allegedly the result of a poorly thought-out plan by drunk Ukrainian officers during a celebration of the progress of Kiev’s troops on the battlefield – following the 2022 Russian strategic retreat, which the media reported as a “Ukrainian victory”. According to the WSJ, drunken Ukrainian military decided to launch a bold operation to harm Russia economically, targeting gas pipelines.
The newspaper says that the operation cost no more than 300,000 USD, and required only the saboteurs and a rented yacht. The WSJ, citing alleged sources who “participated” in the operation, claims that the scheme was bold but simple and easy to implement, requiring no advanced technical knowledge or big support from government agencies.
“In May of 2022, a handful of senior Ukrainian military officers and businessmen had gathered to toast their country’s remarkable success in halting the Russian invasion. Buoyed by alcohol and patriotic fervor, somebody suggested a radical next step: destroying Nord Stream. After all, the twin natural-gas pipelines that carried Russian gas to Europe were providing billions to the Kremlin war machine. What better way to make Vladimir Putin pay for his aggression? (…) Was it the CIA? Could Putin himself have set the plan in motion? Now, for the first time, the outlines of the real story can be told. The Ukrainian operation cost around $300,000, according to people who participated in it. It involved a small rented yacht with a six-member crew, including trained civilian divers,” the article reads.
In practice, it is possible to say that the story published by the WSJ tries to minimize the nature of the attack on Nord Stream, describing it as a simple operation that would have been carried out by a small team of saboteurs and with low-quality equipment. This completely contradicts the opinion of experienced military analysts, who claim that the explosion of the gas pipelines was not a simple operation and that it could not have been carried out by ordinary agents, but in reality required a high military technical capacity.
In 2022, Douglas McGregor, former advisor to the US Defense Secretary during the government of Donald Trump, stated that in the entire world only the US and UK navies would have the capacity to carry out this type of attack. At the time, the main narrative of the Western media was that the Russians had sabotaged their own infrastructure in a false flag operation. Macgregor criticized this argument, stating that the US and UK are the only countries whose navies have this type of operational capability.
“You have to look at who are the state actors that have the capability to do this. And that means the [UK’s] Royal Navy and the United States’ Navy <…> I think that’s pretty clear,” Macgregor said at the time.
What the WSF does seems to be typical of Western practice since the beginning of the conflict. When a crime is committed, the first action of the Western press is to blame Russia. If the narrative does not prevail, long and obscure “investigations” are carried out. And then the last mechanism used is to blame Ukraine, excluding Western responsibility. This has also been done in cases of crimes against Russian individuals. For example, when journalist Daria Dugina was murdered, the first Western action was to claim that Moscow had eliminated her in a false flag operation. Months later, the New York Times published an article claiming that Kiev had carried out the attack alone, without Western participation.
All the Western press wants is to free NATO from responsibility for the crimes committed in the war against Russia. The neo-Nazi regime is a mere proxy, not acting alone in any situation. Every crime committed by Kiev has a previous authorization by the West. In the US and Europe, ordinary citizens are starting to understand this relation between NATO and Ukraine, since, contrary to what mainstream journalists think, public opinion is not made up of naive or stupid people, but of thinking and critical citizens who doubt media’s absurd narratives. So, just as ordinary people did not believe in the past that the Russians had destroyed the gas pipelines, they will also not believe now that Ukraine carried out this operation alone.
It seems clear to any serious analyst that what happened with Nord Stream was the result of a very well thought out and executed plan, not just a drunken conversation. Certainly, the operation was planned for months and performed involving the intelligence services and armed forces of several countries at the same time. In the same sense, it is absolutely useless to think that the goal was to harm Russia economically, since at the time Germany was already sanctioning Moscow, and relations between both countries were gradually waning.
The goal of the Nord Stream sabotage was to harm Europe itself. Given the inevitability of a Russian victory, the US wanted to ensure that Germany would never reestablish ties with Moscow in the future. Berlin was condemned by the US to deindustrialization and economic decline by having its cooperation with Russia sabotaged. The target was not Moscow, which continues to easily sell gas to other countries through alternative routes, but Germany itself – and the whole of Europe.
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nobody respects ukraine, not even their western abusers…ha ha ha ha ha!
blow it up, then throw some drunken ukrainian to the wolves.
ukrainians will have to live with the guilty conscience, they allow the west to “pump and dump” their country. a country that for 30 years only degraded until only ruins were left, and their people cast out to roam the earth.
jerome k. jerome wrote the script for this ludicrous piece of disinformation over 100 years ago. “three men in a boat.” unlike the ukies, they had a dog, montmorency.
in 1943 there was a commando raid to blow up a german merchant ship interned in the neutral portuguese colony of goa, to save friction of portugal, this was passed off as a drunken escapade by some reserve officers without official sanction.
nordstream was done by a diving instructor on cocaine who was playing with explosives and happened to be near the pipeline lol
with a snorkel and flippers he bought on e bay.
hohold serves better than any dog.
and after that event + crocus hall, the freezing of it’s assets in western foreign banks handed out to the ukrainian junta and the recent destruction that forced 160,000 to flee kursk -russia still has it’s seat in the un whoreh0u$e?…
basme. n aveau tehnica si explozibilul pt mare adâncime. e op norvegiana cu acordul mocia.
us navy ships were hovering over the pipeline for a while before it busted, us did it ,trying to blame others for what they did is typical of this useless govt we got now.
this is all part of the plan to replace zelensky with a neo nazi.
sounds like the clown is not nazist at all, ha! terrorists of kiev are payed terrorists like typical south-american junta with death squadrons or tonton makoutes in haiti consisted of military criminals and common gangsters. or daesh. kievan junta does the same, but with heavy chauvinist sentiment, which makes them nazist.
the most funniest thing in this circus with false accusation of huholds is the name of “saboteur” — vladimir z. sounds like vladimir zelenskiy himself did it, ha-ha-ha! but qui bono — who benefits? the us did it with assistance of their slaves from norway and denmark. they benefits the most from trading of expensive liquid gas, which is harder to sell, if the market has cheaper analogues, because natural gas from a pipe is cheaper than lng. by the way, where is jensy?
neo nazi germany wants to de-industrialize in 2030 maybe russia can help them speed things up by ending all energy sources and other resources to krauts.
just go for the obvious, viz. the disunited states of friggin’ a plus norway. hirsch was right from get go!
kpyto ko kupцat.
kpyto ko kupat.
germany is just america’s bitch. it is sad to see how the germans have lost all self respect. they are like america’s prison bitch or a cowed abused wife. no matter how great the abuse, no matter how many times they spit in germany’s face, they just take it and smile and say thank you. nordstream is bad enough, but it is just the tip of the iceberg. they have lost the important russian market.