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The German chancellor didn't say anything concrete at the time, he was very vague. One question I'd like to ask Scholz if I was chairing a parliamentary hearing is this: Has Joe Biden told you about this? Did he tell you then why he was so confident that he could destroy the pipeline? As Americans, we didn't have a plan in place then, but we knew we had the ability to do it.

As slavish as the European vassals are towards the Americans, I don't think that this happened without the approval of Scholz (which is treason to his country). It only benefits him, as he avoided the public pressuring him to reopen Nord Stream.

Yes, they did towards the end of the exercise. But at the last minute, the White House got nervous. The President said he was afraid to do it. He changed his mind and issued new orders, giving the ability to remotely detonate the bombs at any time. You do that with a regular sonar, a Raytheon product by the way, you fly over the spot and drop a cylinder. It sends a low-frequency signal, you can describe it as a flute sound, you can set different frequencies.

It wouldn't be an event without Raytheon profiting in some way off of it.

Joe Biden decided not to blow them up back in June, it was five months into the war. But in September he ordered it to be done . The operational staff, the people who do "kinetic" things for the United States, they do what the President says, and at first they thought that was a useful weapon that he could use in negotiations. But sometime after the Russians invaded, and then when the operation was complete, the whole thing became increasingly repugnant to the people running it. These are people who work in top positions in the secret services and are well trained. They opposed the project, they thought it was crazy.

I guess this would explain why they leaked it.

On the goals of the terrorist attack:

What do you think were the motives for the attack? The US government was against the pipeline for many reasons. Some say she opposed it because she wanted to weaken Russia or to weaken relations between Russia and Western Europe, especially Germany. But maybe also to weaken the German economy, which is a competitor to the US economy. High gas prices have prompted companies to relocate to the US. What is your take on the US government's motives?

I don't think they've thought this through thoroughly. I know that sounds strange. I don't think Secretary of State Blinken and some others in the government are deep thinkers. There are certainly people in American business who like the idea that we are becoming more competitive. We sell liquefied natural gas (LNG) at extremely high profits, we make a lot of money from it.

I'm sure there were some people who thought, Boy, is this going to give the American economy a long-term boost. But in the White House, I think they've always been obsessed with re-election, and they wanted to win the war, they wanted to get a victory, they wanted Ukraine to somehow magically win. There might be some people who think that maybe it's better for our economy if the German economy is weak, but that's crazy. I think we got caught up in something that won't work, the war won't end well for this government.

During the podcast interview, he also stated that the war is going differently than how it is reported in the Western media, though he did not specify how. Basically, the Western media switches every 2 weeks or so between "Ukraine is winning" and "Ukraine is losing badly".

It doesn't matter what I think. What I do know is that there is no way this war will end the way we want it to, and I don't know what we will do as we look further into the future. It scares me that the President was willing to do something like this. And the people running that mission believed that the President was aware of what he was doing to the people of Germany, that he was punishing them for a war that wasn't going well. And in the long run, this will not only damage his reputation as President, it will also be very damaging politically. It will be a stigma for the US.

Well, you're right about that. Any time anyone brings up the Americans in any context, I'm just going to reply about the pipelines they blew up and whose destruction they then blamed on MUH RUSSHER.

The point is also that this can be perceived as an act of war not only against Russia but also against Western allies, especially Germany.

I would put it more simply. The people involved in the operation saw that the President wanted to freeze Germany for his short-term political goals, and that horrified them. I'm talking about Americans who are very loyal to the United States. The CIA, as I put it in my article, works for power, not for the constitution.

I'm surprised but pleased if it's true that there are people in the USG who give a damn about Germany freezing, I guess if it's not that Germans will then turn on the US for inflicting this on them.

What role does courage play for you in your job?

What's brave about telling the truth? It's not our job to be afraid. And sometimes it gets ugly. There have been times in my life when... - you know, I don't talk about it. But threats are not directed at people like me, but at the children of people like me. There were terrible things. But you don't worry about it, you can't. You just have to do what you do.

Damn. Am I glad that there are people like Seymour Hersh.