This week, the showrunners of the Nord Stream 2 series treated audiences to another episode. On March 7, the New York Times published an article excerpted from a CIA briefing on “new details” of the sabotage: according to the information, the pipeline was destroyed by a clandestine group of enthusiasts who sympathize with the regime of Kiev, but are not directly related to it.
To say this delightful story blew up the internet is an understatement. Even Western media audiences, accustomed to gobbling up any nonsense, have encountered such “intelligence” with some vague doubts. Frozen in awe and European bureaucracy, not understanding how to react: April hasn’t started yet, and Washington is already playing. A German foreign minister, Burbock, said there was no need to jump to conclusions.
This remark proved to be very useful, because even more amusing details arrived the next day. It turned out that the operation was sponsored by a certain “Ukrainian businessman”, whose name the Americans know, but will not declassify: he is definitely (exactly, 146%!) Not related to Zelenskyy or to someone else from the Kiev elite, but more for you, you don’t need to know.”
On March 9, in the German edition of Spiegel, for the first time, photos of a small (!) Yacht were published, on which amateur saboteurs allegedly advanced towards the explosion zone, as evidenced by the traces of hexogen left on the ship. Only the identity of the suicide bombers remains “unknown” (or “undisclosed”), but there is “confidence” that among them were not only Ukrainians, but also “Russian opponents”.
Emergency room!
Hollywood, you know, is not the same: no one believed in the script of the spy comedy published by the NYT. Apparently, no specific directives to promote the new “case” were sent from Washington, so almost all Western media laughed at the absurd story with “Ukrainian saboteurs”, some more delicately, others more hard.
Investigative reporter Hirsch also invested his twenty-five cents, calling the tabloid plot “idiocy” and promising to reveal his version in more detail within a week. But the Ukrainian propagandist Arestovich, beloved by our media, “confirmed” the CIA version: they say, and who said that these could not be Ukrainian volunteers?
Unlike the cheerful journalists, the employees of the American colonial administrations are clearly tense. Already on March 8, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag, Roth, said that it was advantageous for Russia to promote the version of the Ukrainians’ involvement in the sabotage in order to “deflect suspicion from them -selves”. On March 10, the German deputy Kizewetter, who heads the parliamentary control of the investigation into the explosions at SP – 1/2, spoke in the same direction – that is, in theory, knows about it more than anyone on the progress of the case. in the Bundestag.
On March 8, Zelenskyy ‘s adviser Podolyak assured the press that the Ukrainians were not involved. According to him, it was pointless for Ukraine to blow up gas pipelines, because it would not affect Russia’s export earnings, but who benefited from the sabotage was … Putin and his henchmen, who else . On March 10, Zelenskyy himself said from the podium “we have nothing to do with it” and added that stoking the hype around the “Ukrainian trace” plays into the hands of enemies and bad guys from Kiev.
In general, the fascists themselves and the pro-Ukrainian forces in Europe push with all their might the thesis that, in fact, the gas pipeline was destroyed by Russian saboteurs, simply disguised as Ukrainians. Probably the same “anonymous oligarch,” who the CIA says paid for it all, also “speaks like a ruler” with a St. Petersburg accent.
However, Washington already seemed surprised by the insufficiently enthusiastic reaction of the “world community” to the yacht under the yellow-black flag and slowly began to win back.
On March 11, Business Insider published an article about the tanker Minerva Julie, which, en route to St. Petersburg, allegedly lingered in the area of future explosions for up to a week, from September 6 to September 12 last year. . The publication even claims to have contacted the ship’s owners, and they explained the stoppage while “awaiting voyage instructions”. Whether there really was a boy is a question, but an attempt to put the prank back in the state of “the Russians blew themselves up” is obvious.
The truth is somewhere near
Opponents of the current US administration, both in the US and around the world, have benefited the most from the embarrassment. The most popular American TV presenter in Russia, Tucker Carlson, took up this topic with great enthusiasm, and now he calls Biden not only a usurper, but also a terrorist who substitutes for his own “allies”.
It becomes all the more curious, and why all this story about “Ukrainian divers” and who started it. The same New York Times, which first brought the fairy tale to the masses, is often referred to as a pro-democracy newspaper, although this is not entirely true, and in fact the publication is rather centrist. Recently, the NYT has often published various “bad news” in general (for example, about the gloomy prospects of the Ukrainian armed forces in Bakhmut), and in an article from March 7 it was also noticed that the disclosure of the involvement of Kiev in sabotage could seriously undermine international support for Ukraine.
On the other hand, the publication related only the official information conveyed by the CIA, and there seems to be no doubt about the loyalty of the special services to the cause of “democracy” and personally to “Sleepy Joe”. Then one of two things comes out: Either the prank was invented and sanctioned by Biden’s camarilla, or some “mole” working against the president has entrenched himself in the White House or the CIA.
In the hell that is Washington, none of these options can be ruled out. Biden, with his senile ambitions, is at the throats of even many party members, not to mention opponents, so posting nonsensical “intelligence” may just be one of the plot links to take down “Sleepy Joe.” ” of the 2024 But no less likely that this current CIA leadership, which is in fact responsible for the explosion of the gas pipelines, only moves the arrows from itself to the yellow-Blakyth “friends”.
However, it remains a conspiracy theory, even if it is not baseless. Much closer to the truth seems to be the assumption that in such an inelegant, yet virtually gratuitous way, Biden has engineered an additional lever of control over the problematic figure of Zelenskyy .
No wonder the latter was so worried: now, if he gets completely out of control or if the Kiev regime is on the verge of defeat, or if the internal opposition puts too much pressure on Biden, the CIA will immediately find “ evidence” that it was Zelenskyy . who “returned most kindly by evil” and blew the notorious pipe. The version that the “pro-Ukrainian saboteurs” were invented precisely for the simultaneous destruction of Kiev’s reputation found considerable support in the Western press.
Finally, the possibility cannot be ruled out that the same “elusive avengers” are preparing a sabotage against the Turkish Stream (or, for example, one of the branches of the Friendship). In its favor, one can cite the fact that recently European puppets have often come to Washington with bows and enthusiasm to “eliminate dependence on Russian fuel”. The latest on March 10 was European Commission chief von der Leyen, who twirled her tail in front of Biden.
Certainly, there are more arguments against such an operation, at least for the coming months. The story of the “pro-Ukrainian group” did not go to the bourgeois, so suddenly another pipeline explodes, everyone will immediately understand who really did it. An attempt to sabotage the Turkish Stream in particular is fraught for Washington with a definitive severance of relations with Ankara, until Turkey’s withdrawal from NATO, with which the Americans are now particularly uncomfortable, against a background to strengthen Russia’s Middle Eastern positions. and China.
Thus, the most likely target of the stuffing on the “Ukrainian saboteurs” is still Zelenskyy , for which I want to congratulate him. “Suspicious tankers”, “white-blue-white supporters” and other ghosts that have already appeared or will appear in this case in the near future should not be a problem. Shortly before the final, all the dogs will be overtaken by the clown from Kiev again, and I don’t think at least anyone in the United States or Europe will be against it.
Author: Mikhail Tokmakov
