© Danish Defence/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesDanish Defense shows the gas leaking at Nord Stream 2 seen from the Danish F-16 interceptor on Bornholm, Denmark on September 27, 2022.
It's been more than a year since one of the biggest pieces of energy infrastructure in Europe was destroyed in what can only be described as a terror attack. One would imagine that no stone would be left unturned to investigate a crime of such magnitude and attribute responsibility.
You would also think that the countries that stood to lose most from Nord Stream's destruction would be at the forefront of these investigations.
Well, welcome to the Europe of 2023 where, in a weird case of Stockholm syndrome, it seems neither the alleged perpetrator nor indeed one of the main victims wants any more "trouble" when it comes to Nord Stream. The consensus is to let sleeping dogs lie, and considering the evidence of US involvement in the attack, that's entirely unsurprising.On September 26, 2022, the world's news feeds erupted with reports of the powerful explosions which tore the landmark Russian-German gas pipelines apart, dealing a devastating blow to Berlin's, and by extension the entire EU's, energy security. Within a couple of days, Western media had seemingly solved the mystery. Publications such as
Politico eagerly proclaimed that
"Everything is pointing to Russia," embracing the utterly delusional anti-logic that would make it plausible that Russia would destroy a piece of its own energy infrastructure that had been bringing it steady income. This reality, widely accepted by objective,
nonaligned observers, was however lost on a slew of NATO-, US-, and EU-aligned commentators and officials. A mere four days after the explosions, US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told the
BBC that it
"seems" Russia was behind the destruction of its own multibillion-dollar investment.
When we roll the clock forward to today,
it is now patently clear that Western media have been tasked with memory-holing the entire Nord Stream affair, with Germany, Sweden, and Denmark quietly conducting separate
"investigations" which conveniently exclude Russian officials while also remaining strangely low-key in Western newsfeeds. These obviously declawed investigations continue as it is increasingly
accepted in the West that Russia had nothing to do with the sabotage, it now being obvious that the
US and/or a proxy partner were actually behind this terror attack on European soil. More than a year after these attacks, it's apparent that the manner in which this reality has been suppressed is possibly more sinister than the attack itself.
Comment:
Is all this just a pretext for a larger military conflict with Iran for example or any other Arab country in the Middle East? Will this be another 9/11, and will they accuse Iran of the support and logistics of the attack on Israel the same way the USA accused Afghanistan of 9/11 and later Iraq of possession of WMD which was never found?