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First they blamed the Russians. The biggest act of economic terrorism – and eco-vandalism – in living history and they tried to pin it on Putin! In a Western world even halfways awake, that in and of itself should have been cause for hoots of derision. To say Russia blew up Nordstream to starve Europe in general, and German industry in particular, of cheap gas is to say the Kremlin is so full of morons it couldn’t even figure out that if, for reasons unfathomable, it did indeed wish to rob itself of so valuable an income stream, it need only turn off the tap. Duh!<\/p>\n
But then, as this site and others have been saying ad nauseum,<\/em> narrative trumps evidence and reason every time. We’re a species of story-tellers and myth-makers; a trait that likely served us well – on balance – for tens of millennia but in a world whose global myths are spun by mass media in the hands of tiny oligarchies is easily abused to serve narrow interests and agendas.<\/p>\n Witness the ease, once it is established that a certain president of the Russian Federation is the devil incarnate …<\/p>\n … of persuading folk not obviously mentally retarded that the man wishes to conquer Western Europe, poisons opponents (ineptly) and is detested by his own people (who perversely vote in large numbers for him in elections for which there’s zero evidence – though plenty of claims – of their being rigged). Just as Bashar al-Assad had a penchant for gassing children days before the arrival of UN weapons inspection teams, so can we be sure Vladimir Putin boils kittens, eats babies baked in a pie and routinely shoots himself in the head, for fun or to advance nefarious goals. No matter how ludicrous the charge, our systemically corrupt<\/strong><\/a> media can make it stick by sheer force of repetition and, since those media may differ markedly on issues not<\/em>\u00a0 threatening to power, unanimity.<\/p>\n They can’t all be making it up …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But even propaganda blitzes<\/strong><\/a> tend in due c. to collapse under the weight of their own absurdity. The passage of time allows some at least of their targets to recover their ability to think. So it was with the Russia dunnit<\/em>\u00a0 account of Nordstream. At which point the narrative shifted, and it was filed with Mary Celeste, Lost City of Atlantis and why Sonny Liston went down in round one of his rematch with Muhammed Ali under Great Mysteries of post neolithic humanity. There’d be an Inquiry, of course, but it would proceed at glacial pace while media aided amnesia removed the whole affair from the public gaze.<\/p>\n Now it appears we have an answer. It was a rogue Ukrainian soldier wot dunnit. Mystery solved! All those crackpot conspiracy theorists trying to hang this on Washington can go take a running jump.<\/p>\n Here’s Defend Democracy, today.<\/p>\n Everybody knew from the very beginning who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines as we were writing one day after the sabotage:<\/span> Destroy the Nord Stream, Fuck the EU<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Everybody in the West knew it was a big and stupid lie to claim, as nearly all mass media and politicians have, that Russia was responsible<\/span><\/p>\n Now they try to claim an Ukrainian general is responsible. Not the US, the Polish or the Ukrainian administration.<\/span><\/p>\n Western politicians and western media are considering Western citizens as fools.<\/span><\/p>\n On September 27, 2022, Nord Stream AG reported \u201cunprecedented damage\u201d on three strings of the offshore gas pipelines of the Nord Stream system<\/span><\/p>\n MOSCOW, August 19. \/TASS\/. Nobody has any doubts left that Washing is behind explosions at Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on the air with Rossiya-1 television.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe United States \u2013 nobody has any doubt left thus far \u2013 is behind explosions at Nord Streams, which left Europe without the cheap Russian fuel and accordingly without the sustainable base of economic development,\u201d the minister said.<\/span><\/p>\n On September 27, 2022, Nord Stream AG reported \u201cunprecedented damage\u201d on three strings of the offshore gas pipelines of the Nord Stream system. Later, Swedish seismologists said they had identified two explosions on the route of the Nord Stream pipelines on September 26, 2022. Following the incident, the Russian Prosecutor General\u2019s Office initiated a criminal case on charges of international terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n Deborah Cole in Berlin<\/em><\/span> Russia has complained to\u00a0Germany\u00a0about its investigation into the 2022 sabotage of the multibillion-dollar Nord Stream gas pipelines that run between the two countries, accusing Europe\u2019s top economic power of having little interest in finding those responsible.<\/span><\/p>\n The head of a European department at the foreign ministry, Oleg Tyapkin, said Russia had \u201craised the issue of Germany and other affected countries fulfilling their obligations under the UN anti-terrorist conventions\u201d, RIA news agency reported in remarks cited by Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have officially made corresponding claims on this matter bilaterally, including to Berlin,\u201d Tyapkin said.<\/span><\/p>\n The criticism came after it was reported last week that German prosecutors had issued<\/span>\u00a0an arrest warrant<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for a Ukrainian diving instructor as a prime suspect.<\/span><\/p>\n Continue reading at<\/span>\u00a0www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n By Mia Jankowicz, <\/span><\/em>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/putin-trashed-in-media.jpg\")
<\/p>\nNord Stream. How western governments and media take us for fools<\/a><\/h2>\n
No doubts US is behind Nord Stream sabotage acts \u2014 Lavrov<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
Russia criticises German progress in Nord Stream sabotage inquiry<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
\n19 Aug 2024<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\nUkraine\u2019s top general disobeyed Zelenskyy and blew up the Nord Stream pipeline without permission, report says<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n