In an interview with Western Standard News, an independent western Canada news agency, Seymour Hersh reiterated that the U.S. ordered the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, and that President Joe Biden has committed a “grave error.”
“‘[Biden’s] committed a great mistake. He screwed up,” Hersh told interviewer David Krayden. ‘He’s told Germany and NATO ‘When push comes to shove, I’ll throw you over the wall. You can be cold [this winter], I don’t care. If you’re not giving enough money to Ukraine, screw you.'
“ ‘That’s what he’s done. He’s basically lied. He’s lying now to push us into war, like [President Lyndon] Johnson lied to push us into war,’ he said in reference to Johnson using a fictitious military attack by North Vietnam on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin to justify the Vietnam War.” (https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/from-the-gulf-of-tonkin-to-the-baltic )
When Krayden suggested to Hersh that “the destruction of the pipelines had a historical parallel to the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the precipitating event of the First World War, he said, ‘Guess what, I think you’re absolutely right.’
