There is a suspicion that the U.S. and Norway carried out the September 2022 explosives attack on Nord Stream, said Markus Frohnmaier, of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) in the Bundestag session on Feb. 10, in the context of a current affairs hour, whose topic was. “Attacks on German and European Infrastructure.” Frohnmaier referenced the Feb. 8 report by U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh, according to which U.S. Navy divers were responsible for the explosions of the pipelines. (https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream )
The debate was requested by the AfD, and occurred as a break in the general debate session. Frohnmaier criticized that 137 days have passed since that sabotage incident, and he still did not know who had perpetrated the attack on the Russian-German Nord Stream gas pipelines, because the German government had contributed “zero” to the clarification. The disinterest of Chancellor Scholz in a thorough investigation of the sabotage incident fits with his earlier silence against U.S. announcements for killing the pipeline. And it fits with the fact, as reported in this week’s issue of Die Zeit, that Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock lobbied with numerous governments to force Scholz to give the OK for them to send Leopard tanks, made in Germany, to Ukraine.
Frohnmaier said that he cannot rule out a U.S. hand against the pipeline sabotage nor a Russian hand behind it, but the Berlin government owes the Bundestag and the German nation a serious commitment to shed light on this attack on German interests—and if the U.S. did it, the basis for mutual trust inside the NATO alliance would be profoundly destroyed.
“The Bundestag has a right to know what the federal government knows,” said the AfD party’s official Twitter account, citing Bundestag group leader Tino Chrupalla, who had demanded the special-topic hour, in which these questions could be raised. A lawmaker from Die Linke also spoke out strongly for investigation, at the session. Other speakers were outrageously stupid. For example, a young CDU lawmaker gave a twerpy complaint that old fuddy duddies like Hersh, who is 85, may have said something right years ago, but noone should pay any attention to them today.
