{"id":20755,"date":"2023-02-19T12:51:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T11:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=20755"},"modified":"2023-02-19T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T12:03:21","slug":"seymour-hersh-interview-in-new-left-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=20755","title":{"rendered":"Seymour Hersh interview in New Left Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newleftreview.org\/sidecar\/posts\/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seymour Hersh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/newleftreview.org\/sidecar\/posts\/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20756 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hersh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hersh.jpg 900w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hersh-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hersh-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hersh-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The longer-term outlook for Ukraine was always bleak \u2013 partly because it\u2019s still an extremely corrupt country where Western aid is often misused. So I think Biden had a tactical interest in destroying the pipeline, because this would prevent Germany from changing its mind when the going got tough and withdrawing its support for Ukraine. If there was a cold spell in November or December, that could\u2019ve halted the Ukrainian counter-offensive and put pressure on Germany to lower gas prices by opening up the line. So that might have been one of the administration\u2019s most immediate fears.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s also a long history of American hostility towards this pipeline, stretching back to Bush and Cheney, who saw it as a strategic weapon that Russia could use to keep Germany and Western Europe from supporting NATO. Biden\u2019s thinking was very much in line with this. Now, I don\u2019t know if he wants a war with Russia. I don\u2019t know if he wants a war with China. I don\u2019t know what he wants. But it\u2019s scary as hell, because maybe he doesn\u2019t even know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9<\/p>\n<p>The US is still sending liquefied natural gas to its European allies, but is charging three to four times more for it. So the president\u2019s basically made a toss, you know, between severing the Germany\u2013Russia link and losing political support for America and some of the states we most value. That would give any rational person in the intelligence community pause for thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seymour Hersh: The longer-term outlook for Ukraine was always bleak \u2013 partly because it\u2019s still an extremely corrupt country where Western aid is often misused. So I think Biden had a tactical interest in destroying the pipeline, because this would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=20755\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}