It seems like whenever a story surfaces people in power don’t like, it is immediately dismissed as a crazy conspiracy theory. The conveyors of the story are instantly vilified by those in power, whether they be in the media or in government. It is happening already to famed journalist Seymour Hersh, who for decades was a star reporter writing for The New York Times and New Yorker. Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize for his report revealing that U.S. troops massacred Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in 1968.
This week, using an unnamed source who Hersh said had "direct knowledge of the operational planning", he reported that US Navy “skilled deep-water divers” planted the explosives that blew up the Nord Stream pipeline that carried natural gas from Russia to Germany and other European companies.
According to Hersh, President Biden created a special task force under the direction of US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Allegedly, after debating plans over a period of nine months, the President ordered U.S. Navy divers to work with the CIA and blow up the pipelines. After the report was published, the White House called the accusation "utterly false" and "complete fiction."
Who should Americans believe? When we wrote about the pipeline explosion back in October in our article Who Do You Trust?, we were very skeptical of the President’s denial. Back then we pointed out what President Biden said on February 7: "If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.” Twenty days earlier Undersecretary of State, Victoria Nuland, delivered the same message: “I want to be very clear to you today, If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.”
If Hersh’s story is true, this is a really, really big deal; for an act of sabotage, like what happened to the Nord Stream pipeline, could easily be called an act of war. How would we react, for instance, if Russia blew up the Alaska Pipeline?
Therefore, in questioning and trying to determine whether Hersh’s story is true, we think you would have to wonder why the President would risk ordering the destruction of such an important Russian asset. According to Hersh, the reason is straightforward: "As long as Europe remained dependent on the pipelines for cheap natural gas, Washington was afraid that countries like Germany would be reluctant to supply Ukraine with the money and weapons it needed to defeat Russia."
Is that motive true or false? It sounds true to us. Yes, the President wants to defeat Russia. As we pointed out in early January in our article Give Peace a Chance, Biden, Pelosi and McConnell are all united in seeking victory in Ukraine. There is no Biden peace plan. Instead, the President is doubling down in his desire for victory, and in doing so, he is escalating our involvement and increasing the risk that we will go to war with nuclear armed Russia. In March, 2022, while speaking at a gathering of House Democrats in Philadelphia, Biden stated: “The idea that we’re going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews — just understand, don’t kid yourself, no matter what y’all say, that’s called World War III.“ He has evidently changed his mind and not worried about World War III anymore, for the U.S. will be sending 31 of the 70-ton Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine.
In sum, we do not believe the President, and we think his actions in the Ukraine are reckless and constitute an extreme abuse of Presidential power. Hopefully, Congress will wake up. We are now fully engaged in a proxy war with Russia that could easily turn into something bigger and much more dangerous. According to Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution, Congress, not the President, has the exclusive right to declare war. Hopefully, someone in Congress will rise up and speak out.
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