On September 26, 2022, seven months after Russia invaded Ukraine, saboteurs destroyed the Nordstream pipeline, a major gas conduit to Germany and Western Europe.
At the time, NATO personnel, the US government, and Ukraine denied involvement, suggesting that Russia might have been responsible. American media echoed Washington’s narrative, repeatedly implying that Putin ordered the pipeline's destruction for reasons never explained.
A paragraph from Vox encapsulates the prevailing narrative back then:
Officially, many in Europe blamed Russia for the sabotage, given that the EU believes the Kremlin has a long history of weaponizing energy. Moscow likely has the capability and equipment to carry out such an operation, and a motive to continue pressuring Europe as Vladimir Putin escalates his war efforts.
Several German politicians publicly blamed Moscow, and John Brennan, the former CIA director, said Russia was the most likely suspect.
However, those grounded in reality knew there was no reason for the Russians to sabotage the pipeline, and the real suspects were always the Americans, Ukrainians, and possibly the Poles.
Nearly two years later, only the most extreme Russophobes believe—or claim to believe—that Moscow bombed the pipeline.
By the summer of 2023, reports began to surface that Ukrainian agents based in Poland had carried out the pipeline attack. The main question was how involved the US was and whether Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky knew about it.
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal—a newspaper neither pro-Moscow nor anti-NATO—reported that both the CIA and Zelensky were aware of a plot orchestrated by Zelensky’s chief, Valeriy Zaluzhniy. Indeed, according to the newspaper, Zelensky "initially approved the plan."
In other words, the CIA and the Ukrainian government have been lying all along. They knew exactly who destroyed the pipeline but continued to fuel speculation that the Russians did it. The Poles knew too.
However, some aspects of the newspaper’s report remain suspicious. The claim that the CIA was uninvolved seems unlikely, especially given the implausibility of a few men on a rented sailboat undertaking such a mission. The whole story feels like Washington knew it couldn't maintain Ukraine’s innocence much longer, so the US regime helped craft a convenient story, suggesting the CIA tried to stop Ukraine.
Chay Bowes gets to the heart of the matter:
Anyone that believes the client media peddled fantasy that 3 drunk Ukrainians, in a small sail boat, with no engineering or deep sea capabilities blew up a Deepsea pipeline, in one of the most surveilled areas of water in the world, Is mentally ill.
Anyone that believes the client media peddled fantasy that 3 drunk Ukrainians, in a small sail boat, with no engineering or deep sea capabilities blew up a Deepsea pipeline, in one of the most surveilled areas of water in the world,
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) August 15, 2024
Is mentally ill. pic.twitter.com/yEuhtkQReC
Whether the Wall Street Journal’s story is entirely true or the CIA was involved, it all makes the Germans look very foolish. The fact that Ukrainians were involved at every level means that the German government collapsed to finance and protect a regime that deliberately attacked Germany. Energy costs have skyrocketed for the average German citizen, and the energy-hungry manufacturing sector of Germany’s economy has shown a worrying downward trend for years. German workers and consumers have been impoverished. Berlin is funding Ukraine's war with a country that poses no threat to Germany.
We could also note that Ukraine's attack on Germany’s pipeline infrastructure is an act of aggression by a non-NATO country against a NATO country. However, NATO did not invoke Article 5, which calls for war against Ukraine. Instead, we are told that a NATO member must fight Russia, a country that has not attacked any NATO country.
Meanwhile, in the United States, after years of lying to taxpayers about the pipeline, the American regime shamelessly demands that American taxpayers continue to foot the bill so Congress can send over $100 billion to Ukraine’s oligarchs.
