Former CIA official Graham Fuller, who was vice-chair of the National Intelligence Council at CIA for long-term forecasting, wrote an analysis on Feb. 14 of the Seymour Hersh revelations on the U.S. bombing of the Russian-German Nord Stream pipelines. (https://grahamefuller.com/long-term-implications-of-the-us-destruction-of-nordstream-2-pipeline/) Here are excerpts from his blog:
“The disturbing and detailed report by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh on Washington’s sabotage of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany, now provides new perspective on the momentous series of geopolitical trends that began with the war in Ukraine….
“The stunning recent and detailed reportage of direct American sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline represents a major geostrategic watershed in two senses: First, the implications of Washington’s act of war with disastrous economic impact upon Europe will not subside easily. But more importantly, this event has demonstrated America’s successful cowing of any public commentary on the event—across U.S. media, but more-so, across all European media itself, including in the most economically victimized state—Germany. We observe stunning, nearly inexplicable silence over this major international event.
“And Russia has gotten the message—American policies and statements have deeply reinforced Russia’s long-standing belief that the West is implacably hostile to any Russian role in the West—going back to the bitter and irrevocable split of Christendom between Rome and the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1054. That was later followed up by two devastating European invasions of Russia (Napoleon and Hitler)....
“The rise of a new Great Wall that blocks off Russia from Western Europe is one of the most striking outcomes of this war: European officialdom seems to have cast in its lot, perhaps reluctantly but irrevocably, with the American strategic goals in the world. Those goals now even speak of creating a new ‘NATO Pacific’ designed to challenge Chinese power economically and strategically in China’s own backyard—at great potential economic cost to Europe.
