Bombshell: Was Nord Stream Nuked?
Originally published by ZeroHedge
The clandestine bombings of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines under the Baltic Sea happened on September 26, 2022. This coming Tuesday will mark the one-year anniversary. The prospect of a direct NATO-Russia war has only continued to grow since as a possible nuclear WW3-level disastrous catastrophe, still looming darkly on the horizon.
Legendary American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in his latest article has bluntly stated, “The reality is that Volodymyr Zelensky’s battered army no longer has any chance of a victory.” Whereas previously there was a vast chasm between Hersh’s conclusions and those of mainstream Western press reports, this is no longer the case… just see The Economist this week:
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The narrative dissonance must be particularly jolting for average Americans who up till this point have been treated to constant rosy pictures and overly optimist reports of Ukraine “winning” or at least “pushing back” the Russians. This was certainly the mainstream’s driving theme at least throughout the first year of war, and even into the summer.
Hersh in his Thursday Substack report cited an unnamed intelligence source who “spent the early years of his career working against Soviet aggression and spying.” That source said that despite some continued and recent attempts to paint the Ukraine counteroffensive as making slow but steady progress, the truth is the opposite.
“It’s all lies,” the source told Hersh. “The war is over. Russia has won. There is no Ukrainian offensive anymore, but the White House and the American media have to keep the lie going.”
“The truth is if the Ukrainian army is ordered to continue the offensive, the army would mutiny. The soldiers aren’t willing to die any more, but this doesn’t fit the B.S. that is being authored by the Biden White House,” the intelligence source explained.
This conclusion was perhaps given some degree of confirmation when Zelensky met with Biden on Thursday. Lackluster is how we previously generally characterized the mood. Nothing new of importance was announced by Biden, other than a measly $325 million military aid package from already approved funds. There was also the mention of “limited” or “a little” US long-range missiles approved for Kiev.
Also, Congress is still fiercely divided over the question of approving $24 billion in Ukraine aid for the next fiscal year. All of this strongly suggests even hawkish Ukraine supporters are increasingly wary of pouring more billions into the losing side, which could only ensure a further spiral between Moscow and NATO, and more endless death and destruction.
Here’s more from Hersh’s intelligence source, as summarized in the journal Modern Diplomacy:
“There were some early Ukrainian penetrations in the opening days of the June offensive,” the official said, “at or near” the heavily trapped first of Russia’s three formidable concrete barriers of defense, “and the Russians retreated to sucker them in. And they all got killed.”
After weeks of high casualties and little progress, along with horrific losses to tanks and armored vehicles, he said, major elements of the Ukrainian army, without declaring so, virtually canceled the offensive. The two villages that the Ukrainian army recently claimed as captured “are so tiny that they couldn’t fit between two Burma-Shave signs” — referring to billboards that seemed to be on every American highway after World War II.
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Thus the situation for Ukraine forces couldn’t be more dire at this moment, yet there still doesn’t appear any willingness on the part of Kiev’s backers to push both sides to the negotiating table. However, there have been scattered reports of ‘secret’ dialogue behind the scenes.
Meanwhile, Ukraine – it appears with direct targeting and intelligence help from Washington – continues to mount riskier and riskier attacks on targets inside Russia and Crimea. Friday’s Storm Shadow missile attack on Sevastopol’s Black Sea Fleet naval headquarters is a case in point. It may have taken out top Russian naval commanders (as Ukraine is currently claiming) and marks one of the biggest escalations of the war so far.
i would say attack america, but i enjoy watching the whole thing begin to implode on the americans. the neocons responsible for this whole disaster will never be held accountable and that is the most egregious part of this whole ordeal. ukraine will be bankrupt and the poorest nation in the region while the creatures that started this ridiculous project will most likely be promoted to create more chaos.
nothing is going to happen in or even to america, when it becomes a losing proposition they will simply cut their losses and walk away ( the last bunch that tried american soil made it all the way to hawaii, and remember what happened next)
no, this time around the us will implode, including and especially for the neocons responsible.
a bigger issue surrounding this war is that saudi-arabia decided to slowly step away from the dollar, while other countries are joining the brics intending to do the same.
the us will lose it’s ability to borrow to kingdom come.
but even bigger than that is that the us blew up the nordstream pipeline which will accelerate the destruction of germany’s auto industry.
china is about to take over from germany leaving germany’s economy to dust and the country falling into chaos.
it’s going to take the whole of the eu with it.
such chaos will undoubtedly transfer to the five eyes as well as it has happened in east germany, eastern europe and the soviet union.
the black sea fleet hq was hardly full of any staff officers, it’s a historical building, but its work is hardly done during an smo in the above ground offices. unless you can hit underground facilities, firing missiles at historical buildings is more terrorism than military strike of significance.
more pr from the empire of lies.
seymour is never wrong!
i wonder where all the trolls are, especially the danish and the polish ones.
the us congress often likes to have a political theater oven weapons to fool the people into thinking there are two dissimilar parties and they actually have a say when the decision has already been made.
outstanding analysis by hersh who always has terrific sources. russia must finish this off, as the american zionist-neo-cons come to what will hopefully be a crash landing. american and european populists must recapture their own governments and countries from these people as putin deep-sixes zelensky and his cabal once and for all.