Als Amerikaner stimme ich dieser Analyse leider zu. Deutschland erholte sich vom Zweiten Weltkrieg und der Teilung Deutschlands und wurde zu einem leuchtenden Stern in Europa. Schon früh war Amerika ein starker Verbündeter Deutschlands. Wir müssen jedoch in der Gegenwart leben, nicht in der Vergangenheit, und ich würde argumentieren, dass die USA nicht länger wie ein Verbündeter agieren. Ich würde weiter argumentieren, dass Joe Biden zu einem Werkzeug der autoritären Globalisten geworden ist. Ich schäme mich, dass ich ihn gewählt habe: Er ist kein Zentrist, sondern ein radikaler Linkskommunist. Leider sind die USA kein wahrer Freund Deutschlands mehr, und Deutschland muss aufrecht stehen und sich nicht auf die Unterstützung der USA stützen, um Europa und der Welt willen.
Germany's government is inflicting totalitarian tactics on its citizens. Many Germans are emigrating to countries that are happy to have them. Unfortunately, Germany, like France and likely other countries is working hard to put off it being revealed that they have decimated the pensions everyone put into.
Aaah. Thanks for adding that. That is a true, financial plague. There is always more to the story. I have to imagine that what Joe Biden did, did not help matters much as far as that plague goes...
Eine ausgezeichnete frage. Sehr lustig. Ich brauche zu lachen, mitt das verruckt Welt wir haben hier. Jetzt, wo hast meine Deutche worterbuch gegangen. Vieĺleicht will ich das Auf einmal brauche. NEIN! Ich will Dass niemals brauchen. Ich will mein Deutsch errinern. Guten Nachmittag. Ich muss in bett gehen. Schlaf in Himmlischer Ruhe.
I found it quite poignant to go through the process of opening a translation app, reading the message, and then understanding why it was written in German. I recommend that.
If you can only understand it when it is translated on an app, how does going through the technical process help the message ? I lived in Germany for 7 years- I appreciate many things about them- but my language skills are not so great . Putting it in an app for appreciation just doesn’t resonate with me.
Don’t you?? It struck me that this is a substack I pay for and it was sent without translation . That’s a problem for me. If they had sent it in both languages, that would have been fine. I am entitled to my opinion- even in this new version of America.
OK, I feel sorry for all you non-Deutsch speakers. . . Here you go:
"They make a desert and call it 'peace.'" —Calgacus on the Romans. My German is rusty, but I write and speak this message in the German language in the hope that it will reach as many Germans as possible. The U.S. government is ruining Germany. It was American policy in Syria that caused your refugee crisis in 2015. It was American scientists who created the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It was the American government's aggressive NATO expansion that ultimately led to Russia's violent response in Ukraine. It was a unit of the U.S. Navy that destroyed the Nordstrom pipeline and with it your cheap energy. I am a patriotic American. My grandfather fought against the German Wehrmacht in World War II. My great-uncle was killed in battle against the German army. I grew up with the understanding that American politics is good for Germany. No more. Your Chancellor Scholz should tell President Biden that it is no longer in Germany's interest to stick to American policy."
Danke! Als Amerikanerin, die viele Jahre auch in Oesterreich gelebt habe, stimme ich zu. Oesterreich wurde von allen Besatzungstruppen in 1955 befreit und ist seitdem neutral (na ja, nicht immer ganz aber offiziell schon!) Die riesengrosse Friedensdemo am 25.2.23 in Berlin zeigt, dass das Volk Frieden in der Ukraine will und nicht noch mehr Waffen. Linksstehende deutsche Politiker Sahara Wagenknecht, Oskar Lafontaine und Sevim Dagdalen behaupten mit recht es wäre längst Zeit auch Deutschland von den US-Besatzungstruppen und Miliitaerbasen zu befreien.
Ich stimme zu. Es gibt aber viele Amerikaner, die Deutschland immer noch liebt. Wie in Nazi-Deutschland so ist die Amerikanischeregierung von Verräter übernommen. Gott segne uns!
alle Beziehungen in der Welt gehen in beiden Richtungen. Wir lieben die Amerikaner wie Sie mit Ehrlichkeit und Gerechtigkeit im Herz. Seien Sie bitte nicht so pessimistisch, da wir Deutschen haben den USA genau so "Tod" gemacht. Woher glauben Sie kommt die gesamte CRT Lehre, Harvard-Business-School-Typ Mechanischen/Effizienz Denkweise in Sozialwissenschaften? Woher kommt Kommunismus? Woher kommt so viele über-verängstigten / traumatisierten jüdischen Leuten?...
Ihr Deutsch ist so hervorragend, und wir können uns miteinander gut verstehen, vernetzen und vergeben. Alles wird gut. Danke für Ihren Worten.
Thank you John Leake for this clear message. I have sent it to all my friends in Germany since I agree with it completely. It is shameful what our country has done to former allies and everyone else in the world economy.
“It was American policy in Syria that caused your refugee crisis in 2015.” That is an astounding assertion not based upon fact or reason. Whose unnecessary bombs fell upon Syria causing well over 5 million human beings to flee those bombs as refugees? Russian planes dropped Russian bombs. Now the very same carpet bombing, civilian clearing techniques are being deployed in Ukraine.
Blaming Putin’s violent, genocidal invasion of Ukraine on NATO is absurd. If Putin has existential angst, he should look to his own misguided policies which have turned Russia into a corrupt, backward gulag in terminal demographic decline.
"Destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline took away cheap German energy." No, the Germans themselves have taken away their cheap German energy. They shut down their nuclear power plants, refused to develop their own natural gas fields, spent billions trying to develop solar power in one of the worst places in the world to do so and unwisely decided to depend upon one of the most brutal, ransom prone dictators on the planet (Putin) for their natural gas. This was a suicidal plan driven by believing the delusion that rising CO2 levels will change the global climate – CO2 levels are a lagging not a leading factor. Had the US not heroically directed LNG cargoes to Germany this winter, the country would have been in a very serious energy deficit indeed. Finally - the parties responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines have not yet been credibly identified. Shame on you for asserting otherwise!
Mr. Leake: The video you offer up as “proof” that the US blew up the Nord Stream pipelines is weak tea and does not pass close analysis. It is disingenuous hyperbolic extrapolation of the worst kind and is designed to function as political propaganda to undermine President Biden in particular and the US more broadly.
We have spent three years fighting propaganda created to misinform the public re Sars-CoV-2. It is extremely disappointing to find you, a person who is only given this bully pulpit by association with one of the greatest warriors in the Health Freedom movement, Dr. Peter. A. McCullough. I strongly suggest you up your game and avoid producing similar propaganda yourself. The ends do not justify the means.
Now, let’s review the actual facts of this matter:
On Feb 7, 2022 during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, President Biden was asked about the future of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline – specifically the question from Reuters regarding the future of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was: “Did you receive assurance from Chancellor Scholz today that Germany will in fact pull the plug on this project [Nord Stream 2] if Russia invades Ukraine?”
President Biden responded to this specific question in this specific context: "If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it." When asked how, the president says, "I promise you, we will be able do that."
It is quite clear that what Biden meant at that moment was that if Russia invaded Ukraine then the US would take steps to support Germany in a decision to stop certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Blowing it up was not implied – decertification was.
On February 22, 2022
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, suspended certification of Nord Stream 2 – effectively bringing “an end to it.”
Scholz made this decision in response to Russia’s fateful decision to formally recognize two regions in eastern Ukraine. That prompted the German government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz to stop the certification of Nord Stream 2 altogether. One analyst commented: Now, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is looking like it has been “killed off.” Biden may have put “an end” to this pipeline using diplomacy or the Germans may have made this decision unilaterally. In any case - No Bombs were required.
Importantly, Germany itself had already begun this process:
In November 2021, the German energy regulator temporarily halted the certification process that would allow it to start operating the pipeline. The suspension came as Russia was amassing tens of thousands of troops along Ukraine’s border.
The final nail in Nord Stream 2′s coffin came in February following Russia’s fateful decision to formally recognize two regions in eastern Ukraine as being, de facto, part of Russia. That prompted the German government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz to stop the certification process of Nord Stream 2 altogether.
On 26 September 2022, Danish and Swedish authorities reported a number of explosions at pipes A and B of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline and pipe A of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
In October 2022, Russia confirmed that Pipe B of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline escaped destruction, and offered to resume gas supply to Europe – an offer which was promptly declined by GERMANY.
There is no conclusive evidence of who carried out the sabotage despite three separate investigations by Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.
We are all entitled to our own beliefs – we are not entitled to our own facts. The sooner all of us remember this, the better off the entire planet will be. Thank you.
Yes. The US military has access to some of the most technically proficient ordnance divers in the world. But this is not a revelation.
More importantly, the US is not the only country with this capacity. In fact, and amusingly, Hersh undermines his own polemic when he makes a very strong case that it was in fact the Norwegian navy divers who took out the pipelines. “The Norwegian navy was quick to find the right spot, in the shallow waters of the Baltic sea a few miles off Denmark’s Bornholm Island….” For every problem the mission posed, “The Norwegians had a fix.” “After a bit of research, the Americans were all in.”
The Americans were “all in” on a plan designed by and driven by Norway. Norway said where, when and how. If you believe Hersh – he doesn’t actually pin this on the US – he pins it on Norway.
And how exactly does our intrepid reporter “know” that the Americans were “all in” or in fact that any of this took place at all? Where are his facts? Where is even a hint of documentation, triangulation of data, any shred of evidence at all? Any sign that he, as a responsible journalist must do, cross referenced his sources? In every single assertion that Hersh breathlessly shares with the reader, his proof, his smoking gun is - wait for it: Unnamed and undisclosed sources.
Hersh tries to move beyond mere reliance on ephemeral “unnamed sources” and bolster his case by tying it to the annual BALTOPS exercises in the Baltics. But even this fails because while Hersh implies that the undersea mine related activities were a new event concocted only as a cover for the covert operations, the Navy blows this theory clean out of the water:
“With a significant focus of BALTOPS every year being the demonstration of NATO mine hunting capabilities, the U.S. Navy continues to use the exercise as an opportunity to test emerging technology.”
Mr. Hersh has spun an elaborate conspiracy theory but unless more substantive sourcing comes forward – that is all it is.
Listen to what Biden said about the pipeline before it blew up. Sadly, this military wife believes it was us and we should be held accountable for it. Biden is a criminal .
Gerade jetzt bin ich eine Subscriberin geworden….weil Sie auf Deutsch geschrieben haben. Habe für eine Weile nachgedacht, um ob ich abonnieren soll. Ich habe auch bemerkt, dass die Amerikanische Politik beeinflusst Deutsche Politik, auf negative Art. Es macht mich immer traurig, wenn ich das sehe.
About North Stream / It is very likely that the charges were already deployed during BALTOPS' annual multi-national exercise in the Baltic Sea, long before the explosions . On the night of the blast, Norwegian P3 Orion from Andöja A/B, passed into the southern Baltic Sea (extremely unusual behavior) the ability to release radio buoys for either sound or longwave triggering of the charges. In near real time, a US Forces Boeing 737 also flies over the sabotage area.
Dr. McCullough raises some valid concerns, but as an American with German ancestry I think his conclusion represents over simplification. It seems to me that all nations in the free world are facing deep and entrenched threats to their freedoms, both from within and without.
This does not seem like a good time to discourage old alliances. The same US administration that seems to have been working against the interests of the German people seems also to be working against Americans. This was illustrated by the arrest of some who participated in a federally infiltrated and encouraged protest against certification of what many feared was a compromised election, followed by unprecedented years of imprisonment for some without trial while exculpatory evidence was withheld.
There has been censorship in the US of free speech in violation of the nation’s founding principles, promotion of divisive distractions regarding race, and promotion of what would only a few years ago been recognized as wicked behavior. In response to a pandemic caused by a virus likely coming from a lab that it seems was illegally funded through NIH in a Chinese lab, an experimental gene therapy that is proving t have risks of its own was mandated for many and encouraged for all, including those at very low risk. Attempts were made to silence those who tried to point out other effective treatment approaches.
There has been weakening of our military which is now understaffed, sudden abandonment of allies and munitions in Afghanistan and continued US disarmament through munitions being sent to Ukraine for a predictable conflict there that could have been avoided through negotiation and self-determination of the population. Energy independence for the US was abandoned, and the US strategic oil reserve has been depleted. Federal overspending has skyrocketed as if to deliberately create inflation and weaken our nation. Food plants mysteriously explode at an unusual rate.
Meanwhile China rapidly develops cheap and reliable energy, builds formidable offensive capability, forms alliances, and trains school children how to use weapons.
Americans on the other hand are being bombarded with climate alarmism, attempts to incite racial discord, gender and pronoun confusion, and obvious untruths. Distractions and distortions via most media has been successful in keeping many unaware.
In the face of open borders, rising crime and the greatest risk of invasion the US has seen since the revolutionary war, concerted efforts are being made by some to incite chaos by defunding police, promoting conflict, releasing criminals, and disarming law-abiding citizens.
The free world seems to be facing a move by globalist influencers to weaken the west, break down borders and destroy national identities, probably to make imposition of one world control easier.
There are still trustworthy people in the US, but they are not currently the ones in control. Germany, as well as other nations who wish to remain self-governing, would be well advised to contribute heavily and primarily to their own defense since the US currently has been acting as if it is too severely compromised at the top and with too many problems of its own to be able to enforce world peace.
In the face of potential looming global catastrophe, we would do well to get priorities straight, seek and support truth and turn to God to whom we owe life for help.
This does not look like a time to offend or put off allies - it increasingly seems we may soon all need all the help we can get.
I used to be able to read German-- about 50 years ago im Hochschule. Ich verstehe nur eine bisschen von diesen. Meine vohterversichness(sp) ist sehr kleine diesen tagen. Herr Schreiber
Als Amerikaner stimme ich dieser Analyse leider zu. Deutschland erholte sich vom Zweiten Weltkrieg und der Teilung Deutschlands und wurde zu einem leuchtenden Stern in Europa. Schon früh war Amerika ein starker Verbündeter Deutschlands. Wir müssen jedoch in der Gegenwart leben, nicht in der Vergangenheit, und ich würde argumentieren, dass die USA nicht länger wie ein Verbündeter agieren. Ich würde weiter argumentieren, dass Joe Biden zu einem Werkzeug der autoritären Globalisten geworden ist. Ich schäme mich, dass ich ihn gewählt habe: Er ist kein Zentrist, sondern ein radikaler Linkskommunist. Leider sind die USA kein wahrer Freund Deutschlands mehr, und Deutschland muss aufrecht stehen und sich nicht auf die Unterstützung der USA stützen, um Europa und der Welt willen.
Ich bin auch Berlinerin.
Germany's government is inflicting totalitarian tactics on its citizens. Many Germans are emigrating to countries that are happy to have them. Unfortunately, Germany, like France and likely other countries is working hard to put off it being revealed that they have decimated the pensions everyone put into.
Aaah. Thanks for adding that. That is a true, financial plague. There is always more to the story. I have to imagine that what Joe Biden did, did not help matters much as far as that plague goes...
Did you mean to send out this post in English, also?
Has the US been invaded?
😆😆😆
Yes, as a matter of fact!
Eine ausgezeichnete frage. Sehr lustig. Ich brauche zu lachen, mitt das verruckt Welt wir haben hier. Jetzt, wo hast meine Deutche worterbuch gegangen. Vieĺleicht will ich das Auf einmal brauche. NEIN! Ich will Dass niemals brauchen. Ich will mein Deutsch errinern. Guten Nachmittag. Ich muss in bett gehen. Schlaf in Himmlischer Ruhe.
no, it has been overtaken already.
Just copy & paste in to a translation web app.
Shouldn’t have to. An American audience should receive it in English .
I found it quite poignant to go through the process of opening a translation app, reading the message, and then understanding why it was written in German. I recommend that.
If you can only understand it when it is translated on an app, how does going through the technical process help the message ? I lived in Germany for 7 years- I appreciate many things about them- but my language skills are not so great . Putting it in an app for appreciation just doesn’t resonate with me.
Don’t you?? It struck me that this is a substack I pay for and it was sent without translation . That’s a problem for me. If they had sent it in both languages, that would have been fine. I am entitled to my opinion- even in this new version of America.
When I opened this in the browser, a popup showed up asking if I wanted a translation. I am using the Edge browser.
😆 I guess we know who’s lazy!
I’ll try again. I use Brave
OK, I feel sorry for all you non-Deutsch speakers. . . Here you go:
"They make a desert and call it 'peace.'" —Calgacus on the Romans. My German is rusty, but I write and speak this message in the German language in the hope that it will reach as many Germans as possible. The U.S. government is ruining Germany. It was American policy in Syria that caused your refugee crisis in 2015. It was American scientists who created the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It was the American government's aggressive NATO expansion that ultimately led to Russia's violent response in Ukraine. It was a unit of the U.S. Navy that destroyed the Nordstrom pipeline and with it your cheap energy. I am a patriotic American. My grandfather fought against the German Wehrmacht in World War II. My great-uncle was killed in battle against the German army. I grew up with the understanding that American politics is good for Germany. No more. Your Chancellor Scholz should tell President Biden that it is no longer in Germany's interest to stick to American policy."
. . . well, somebody had to do it!
Danke! Als Amerikanerin, die viele Jahre auch in Oesterreich gelebt habe, stimme ich zu. Oesterreich wurde von allen Besatzungstruppen in 1955 befreit und ist seitdem neutral (na ja, nicht immer ganz aber offiziell schon!) Die riesengrosse Friedensdemo am 25.2.23 in Berlin zeigt, dass das Volk Frieden in der Ukraine will und nicht noch mehr Waffen. Linksstehende deutsche Politiker Sahara Wagenknecht, Oskar Lafontaine und Sevim Dagdalen behaupten mit recht es wäre längst Zeit auch Deutschland von den US-Besatzungstruppen und Miliitaerbasen zu befreien.
Ich stimme zu. Es gibt aber viele Amerikaner, die Deutschland immer noch liebt. Wie in Nazi-Deutschland so ist die Amerikanischeregierung von Verräter übernommen. Gott segne uns!
Lieber Herr Leake, lieber Dr. McCullough,
alle Beziehungen in der Welt gehen in beiden Richtungen. Wir lieben die Amerikaner wie Sie mit Ehrlichkeit und Gerechtigkeit im Herz. Seien Sie bitte nicht so pessimistisch, da wir Deutschen haben den USA genau so "Tod" gemacht. Woher glauben Sie kommt die gesamte CRT Lehre, Harvard-Business-School-Typ Mechanischen/Effizienz Denkweise in Sozialwissenschaften? Woher kommt Kommunismus? Woher kommt so viele über-verängstigten / traumatisierten jüdischen Leuten?...
Ihr Deutsch ist so hervorragend, und wir können uns miteinander gut verstehen, vernetzen und vergeben. Alles wird gut. Danke für Ihren Worten.
Du bist ein Berliner! Danke.
Vielen Dank für Ihre klare Botschaft und Diagnose. Wie kann Amerika zum Guten zurückkehren?
Thank you John Leake for this clear message. I have sent it to all my friends in Germany since I agree with it completely. It is shameful what our country has done to former allies and everyone else in the world economy.
“It was American policy in Syria that caused your refugee crisis in 2015.” That is an astounding assertion not based upon fact or reason. Whose unnecessary bombs fell upon Syria causing well over 5 million human beings to flee those bombs as refugees? Russian planes dropped Russian bombs. Now the very same carpet bombing, civilian clearing techniques are being deployed in Ukraine.
Blaming Putin’s violent, genocidal invasion of Ukraine on NATO is absurd. If Putin has existential angst, he should look to his own misguided policies which have turned Russia into a corrupt, backward gulag in terminal demographic decline.
"Destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline took away cheap German energy." No, the Germans themselves have taken away their cheap German energy. They shut down their nuclear power plants, refused to develop their own natural gas fields, spent billions trying to develop solar power in one of the worst places in the world to do so and unwisely decided to depend upon one of the most brutal, ransom prone dictators on the planet (Putin) for their natural gas. This was a suicidal plan driven by believing the delusion that rising CO2 levels will change the global climate – CO2 levels are a lagging not a leading factor. Had the US not heroically directed LNG cargoes to Germany this winter, the country would have been in a very serious energy deficit indeed. Finally - the parties responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines have not yet been credibly identified. Shame on you for asserting otherwise!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8
Mr. Leake: The video you offer up as “proof” that the US blew up the Nord Stream pipelines is weak tea and does not pass close analysis. It is disingenuous hyperbolic extrapolation of the worst kind and is designed to function as political propaganda to undermine President Biden in particular and the US more broadly.
We have spent three years fighting propaganda created to misinform the public re Sars-CoV-2. It is extremely disappointing to find you, a person who is only given this bully pulpit by association with one of the greatest warriors in the Health Freedom movement, Dr. Peter. A. McCullough. I strongly suggest you up your game and avoid producing similar propaganda yourself. The ends do not justify the means.
Now, let’s review the actual facts of this matter:
On Feb 7, 2022 during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, President Biden was asked about the future of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline – specifically the question from Reuters regarding the future of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was: “Did you receive assurance from Chancellor Scholz today that Germany will in fact pull the plug on this project [Nord Stream 2] if Russia invades Ukraine?”
President Biden responded to this specific question in this specific context: "If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it." When asked how, the president says, "I promise you, we will be able do that."
It is quite clear that what Biden meant at that moment was that if Russia invaded Ukraine then the US would take steps to support Germany in a decision to stop certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Blowing it up was not implied – decertification was.
On February 22, 2022
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, suspended certification of Nord Stream 2 – effectively bringing “an end to it.”
Scholz made this decision in response to Russia’s fateful decision to formally recognize two regions in eastern Ukraine. That prompted the German government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz to stop the certification of Nord Stream 2 altogether. One analyst commented: Now, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is looking like it has been “killed off.” Biden may have put “an end” to this pipeline using diplomacy or the Germans may have made this decision unilaterally. In any case - No Bombs were required.
Importantly, Germany itself had already begun this process:
In November 2021, the German energy regulator temporarily halted the certification process that would allow it to start operating the pipeline. The suspension came as Russia was amassing tens of thousands of troops along Ukraine’s border.
The final nail in Nord Stream 2′s coffin came in February following Russia’s fateful decision to formally recognize two regions in eastern Ukraine as being, de facto, part of Russia. That prompted the German government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz to stop the certification process of Nord Stream 2 altogether.
On 26 September 2022, Danish and Swedish authorities reported a number of explosions at pipes A and B of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline and pipe A of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
In October 2022, Russia confirmed that Pipe B of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline escaped destruction, and offered to resume gas supply to Europe – an offer which was promptly declined by GERMANY.
There is no conclusive evidence of who carried out the sabotage despite three separate investigations by Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.
We are all entitled to our own beliefs – we are not entitled to our own facts. The sooner all of us remember this, the better off the entire planet will be. Thank you.
I highly recommend you read the investigative journalism of Seymour Hersh on the subject.
Yes. The US military has access to some of the most technically proficient ordnance divers in the world. But this is not a revelation.
More importantly, the US is not the only country with this capacity. In fact, and amusingly, Hersh undermines his own polemic when he makes a very strong case that it was in fact the Norwegian navy divers who took out the pipelines. “The Norwegian navy was quick to find the right spot, in the shallow waters of the Baltic sea a few miles off Denmark’s Bornholm Island….” For every problem the mission posed, “The Norwegians had a fix.” “After a bit of research, the Americans were all in.”
The Americans were “all in” on a plan designed by and driven by Norway. Norway said where, when and how. If you believe Hersh – he doesn’t actually pin this on the US – he pins it on Norway.
And how exactly does our intrepid reporter “know” that the Americans were “all in” or in fact that any of this took place at all? Where are his facts? Where is even a hint of documentation, triangulation of data, any shred of evidence at all? Any sign that he, as a responsible journalist must do, cross referenced his sources? In every single assertion that Hersh breathlessly shares with the reader, his proof, his smoking gun is - wait for it: Unnamed and undisclosed sources.
Hersh tries to move beyond mere reliance on ephemeral “unnamed sources” and bolster his case by tying it to the annual BALTOPS exercises in the Baltics. But even this fails because while Hersh implies that the undersea mine related activities were a new event concocted only as a cover for the covert operations, the Navy blows this theory clean out of the water:
“With a significant focus of BALTOPS every year being the demonstration of NATO mine hunting capabilities, the U.S. Navy continues to use the exercise as an opportunity to test emerging technology.”
Mr. Hersh has spun an elaborate conspiracy theory but unless more substantive sourcing comes forward – that is all it is.
In American jurisprudence, someone who assists, encourages and has forknowledge of murder is tried as an accomplice...I dost think thou splits hairs.
Listen to what Biden said about the pipeline before it blew up. Sadly, this military wife believes it was us and we should be held accountable for it. Biden is a criminal .
Gerade jetzt bin ich eine Subscriberin geworden….weil Sie auf Deutsch geschrieben haben. Habe für eine Weile nachgedacht, um ob ich abonnieren soll. Ich habe auch bemerkt, dass die Amerikanische Politik beeinflusst Deutsche Politik, auf negative Art. Es macht mich immer traurig, wenn ich das sehe.
Spreckin Ze Duetz? Good to see our German friends in the fight
About North Stream / It is very likely that the charges were already deployed during BALTOPS' annual multi-national exercise in the Baltic Sea, long before the explosions . On the night of the blast, Norwegian P3 Orion from Andöja A/B, passed into the southern Baltic Sea (extremely unusual behavior) the ability to release radio buoys for either sound or longwave triggering of the charges. In near real time, a US Forces Boeing 737 also flies over the sabotage area.
Dr. McCullough raises some valid concerns, but as an American with German ancestry I think his conclusion represents over simplification. It seems to me that all nations in the free world are facing deep and entrenched threats to their freedoms, both from within and without.
This does not seem like a good time to discourage old alliances. The same US administration that seems to have been working against the interests of the German people seems also to be working against Americans. This was illustrated by the arrest of some who participated in a federally infiltrated and encouraged protest against certification of what many feared was a compromised election, followed by unprecedented years of imprisonment for some without trial while exculpatory evidence was withheld.
There has been censorship in the US of free speech in violation of the nation’s founding principles, promotion of divisive distractions regarding race, and promotion of what would only a few years ago been recognized as wicked behavior. In response to a pandemic caused by a virus likely coming from a lab that it seems was illegally funded through NIH in a Chinese lab, an experimental gene therapy that is proving t have risks of its own was mandated for many and encouraged for all, including those at very low risk. Attempts were made to silence those who tried to point out other effective treatment approaches.
There has been weakening of our military which is now understaffed, sudden abandonment of allies and munitions in Afghanistan and continued US disarmament through munitions being sent to Ukraine for a predictable conflict there that could have been avoided through negotiation and self-determination of the population. Energy independence for the US was abandoned, and the US strategic oil reserve has been depleted. Federal overspending has skyrocketed as if to deliberately create inflation and weaken our nation. Food plants mysteriously explode at an unusual rate.
Meanwhile China rapidly develops cheap and reliable energy, builds formidable offensive capability, forms alliances, and trains school children how to use weapons.
Americans on the other hand are being bombarded with climate alarmism, attempts to incite racial discord, gender and pronoun confusion, and obvious untruths. Distractions and distortions via most media has been successful in keeping many unaware.
In the face of open borders, rising crime and the greatest risk of invasion the US has seen since the revolutionary war, concerted efforts are being made by some to incite chaos by defunding police, promoting conflict, releasing criminals, and disarming law-abiding citizens.
The free world seems to be facing a move by globalist influencers to weaken the west, break down borders and destroy national identities, probably to make imposition of one world control easier.
There are still trustworthy people in the US, but they are not currently the ones in control. Germany, as well as other nations who wish to remain self-governing, would be well advised to contribute heavily and primarily to their own defense since the US currently has been acting as if it is too severely compromised at the top and with too many problems of its own to be able to enforce world peace.
In the face of potential looming global catastrophe, we would do well to get priorities straight, seek and support truth and turn to God to whom we owe life for help.
This does not look like a time to offend or put off allies - it increasingly seems we may soon all need all the help we can get.
Ich habe es meinen deutschen Freunden geschickt. (ok, es sind nur zwei...)
I used to be able to read German-- about 50 years ago im Hochschule. Ich verstehe nur eine bisschen von diesen. Meine vohterversichness(sp) ist sehr kleine diesen tagen. Herr Schreiber