Following the Seymour Hersh revelations about the American role in the sabotage of Nord Stream, Die Linke’s Sevim Dagdelen gave a strong five-minute speech in the Bundestag, pointing out some tough questions for Germany, where the pipelines terminated. She questioned the German media’s silence and German government’s reluctance to carry out an investigation in the face of what she called an obvious “terror attack.”
Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock “wouldn’t even venture out to buy a loaf of bread without first getting permission to do so from the U.S. administration,” Dagdelen charged, to some laughter in the hall. She continued: “It is becoming obvious to an increasing number of people in Germany that the Federal government’s dispensation with an independent, diplomatic foreign policy approach that cannot be equated with entering into the serfdom of the U.S.A. threatens to become a growing problem for the security of the population.”
