BERLIN, Feb 15 American journalist Seymour Hersh's interview with Berliner Zeitung, where he shared new details on the investigation of the Nord Stream explosions, was left without the attention of politics and the media, which caused criticism from the readers of the publication.
Earlier, Hersh told the Berliner Zeitung that at a meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in 2022, US leader Joe Biden did not have a ready plan to undermine Nord Stream, but there was an understanding that they could do it. The journalist does not rule out that Scholz could have known about this. Hersh also announced the postponement of the explosion from June to September, due to which 2 out of 8 bombs did not work.
«Let's put it this way: even if it sounds very plausible, it has not been proven. However, the lack of a denial from the federal government seems a little strange to me. And the fact that the Russians are blowing up their own pipelines seems absurd to me,» wrote a Skepticus user under the publication of an article on Twitter Berliner Zeitung.
Social network users also criticized the German media, which reacted rather restrainedly to Hersh's investigation itself, and did not react at all to his subsequent interview with the capital's publication.
«Unbelievable… The media is silent, and the people are sitting further on the couch. There is nowhere clearer. A puppet government,» comments Drusini.
Many commenters note the courage of journalists who decided to do an interview with Hersh despite the silence of the majority.
“I think it’s a scandal that the US is acting against its own allies, that politicians don’t discuss this, that the press is hushing up this monstrous event. And I say it again: my respect for the work of the newspaper, thank you,” thanks Roy Hossa.
Earlier, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, said that Hersh's investigation into Nord Stream was not widely disseminated in the West, which cannot but cause surprise. Hersh's publication says that American divers during the NATO exercises Baltops in the summer of 2022 installed explosives under the Nord Streams, which the Norwegians activated three months later. US President Joe Biden decided to sabotage Nord Stream after more than nine months of secret discussions with the national security team, Hersh said.
The attacks took place on September 26, 2022, on two Russian export gas pipelines to Europe at once — Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2. Germany, Denmark and Sweden do not rule out targeted sabotage. The Nord Stream operator Nord Stream AG reported that the state of emergency on gas pipelines is unprecedented and it is impossible to estimate the repair time. The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation initiated a case on an act of international terrorism after the damage to the Nord Stream gas pipelines. On October 31, Russian President Vladimir Putin reported that Gazprom was allowed to inspect the site of the explosion, and the head of the company, Alexei Miller, reported to him about the inspection. Putin also said that the explosion on the Nord Stream gas pipeline is an obvious terrorist act.