Seymour Hersh in new interview about his Nord Stream post:
"I wouldn't even think to take a story like this to the New York Times, they have decided that the Ukraine war is going to be won by Ukraine and that's what its readers get, so be it"
Link to interview here:
"The stories I have been getting about the war, particularly beginning in fall and that's what gets interesting, have been pretty dire. I think the end is just a question of time, right now it is a question of people Zelenskyy wants to kill of his own people. It's gonna be over"
This Hersh interview is the gift that keeps on giving:
“I think it's going to undercut NATO, which I always found to be supremely useless”
"We're working very closely with the Norwegians on this, who by the way have increased their production of oil to Europe by double. I don't know the exact numbers but it's gone up at least double, maybe even more than two and a half times as much now without the pipeline."
Apparently Nord Stream was an oil pipeline now according to Hersh. Also these numbers are completely made up like the rest of his post.
“The Norwegian government has claimed that one of the ships that you mentioned in your article that was involved in the preparation of this was not present at the time of the exercises. What do you make of Norway's denial?”
“You know, let me tell you something about Nicaragua.”
He claims that the CIA flew in a compression chamber and also "the Alta, the ship was there I mean that's just such a stupid lie"
We know the Alta was NOT present at BALTOPS22.
Hersh makes it sound like the Norwegians were geniuses and "found the shallowest part of the Baltic Sea", something the US never could have done without Norwegian assistance.
If only charts with the seafloor depth existed.
Going back to his claim that it was specifically the "M350 Alta" that was used.
This image is from July 24th 2022, when the M350 Alta was at the scrapyard in Hanøytangen just North of Bergen.
Last time any AIS data was received from the M350 Alta was 2012-11-09 09:24 UTC.
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I have tracked down the whereabouts of every Alta and Oksøy class ship in the Norwegian Navy during the time period where he stated they where used to place the charges on the Nord Stream pipeline.
None of them were ever over the sites as he claims.
🧵This video of a Ukrainian special forces assault on Snake Island in May just surfaced.
I believe that this was on the morning of May 7th based on a previous investigation of that date I have done with @ArtisanalAPT. I will lay out a timeline below
Some time prior to May 6th at 14:49 a Ukrainian TB-2 destroyed a Russian Tor on Snake snake Island.
We know that it was prior to May 6th at 14:49 as a satellite pass shared by AP from that time showed a building destroyed with was still intact on the video.
The Seymour Hersh situation gives such an interesting insight into confirmation bias.
“I believe him because of all the details”
All the details turn out to verifiably incorrect.
“The details don’t matter, he is still right!”
The Norwegian P-8 part of the story is a perfect example. Easily verifiable as not having happened as stated in Hersh’s story.
Then people start pivoting to American P-8s that flew over after the blast or weeks prior.
Sounds like a minor detail, except for the fact that Hersh’s entire story is built up around the premise that Biden specifically used Norwegian military assets to avoid leaks to Congress and the Gang of Eight.
Is it possible that the US destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline? Sure, as of now there is no public conclusive evidence pointing to any suspect.
Using Hersh’s article as evidence though is the same as using the Lord of the Rings trilogy as evidence of the existence hobbits.
In my opinion Russia still remains the suspect with the most motive for the events that happened.
Gasprom got to continue claiming force majeure on its failure to deliver contractually obliged natural gas to Germany and increased pressure on Germany while leaving a lifeline.
🧵There is one detail regarding the timing of the Nord Stream explosions that I have never really seen brought up.
The explosions on the 26th September 2022 coincided with the Russian sham referendums in the occupied regions of Ukraine.
While the pipelines were already essentially dead in the water at the time, Russia continued to state that it would be impossible to reopen them without the West lifting sanctions on Russia, as they claimed they needed parts to repair NS1
Once Russia decided to annex parts of Ukraine, the idea of sanctions being lifted went out of the window. As did any realistic chance of the Nord Stream pipelines being reopened.
Everyone should remember Seymour Herch doesn’t believe the Syrian government was behind the chemical weapons attacks, doesn’t believe that the U.S. killed Osama Bin Laden and doesn’t believe the Russian government was involved in the Skripal poisoning in the UK.
Also important to note that Seymour Herch basically always only uses “anonymous secret government sources”. From what he writes, it seems that he must have a highly placed anonymous source in basically every branch of every government.
The biggest hole in this theory remains that 3 out of 4 pipes were blown up and the one remaining pipe was the one easiest to reopen if Russia decided to restore gas supply to Germany.