Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)
This is a succinct factual summary of the situation, as-of 21 March 2024:
https://theduran.com/nord-stream-investigation-sabotaged-dmitry-polyanskiy (without ads)
https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/XwxLdwo75hY (without ads)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwxLdwo75hY (with ads)
[I have cleaned up the auto-generated transcript because of its many successively repeated phrases and its many fillers such as “uh”, which hindered readability.]
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GLENN DIESEN: Welcome to today’s talk. My name is Glenn Diesen and I’m joined by Alexander Mercouris and Dmitry Polyanskiy the First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations.
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We really wanted to talk to you [Dmitry] today about the recent developments of Nord Stream or lack
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thereof, because for anyone unfamiliar with Nord Stream, I
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guess the quick summary is [that the Nord Stream pipelines from Russia to Germany were] attacked [blown up, destroyed] in September of 2022. This
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was the biggest industrial attack in Europe in its history, plus an environmental
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disaster. The Americans [Biden] had very openly threatened to destroy it, as
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well as [they had already] sanctioned it; and once it was blown up, we remember they did their victory lap
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saying what a great opportunity it was. Radoslaw Sikorski [Poland’s current Foreign Minister] was tweeting [“Thank you, USA.”, which quickly disappeared, which is the way that the U.S. regime censors-out history so as to pump lies].
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And yet I found fascinating then that the politicians and media suddenly began to argue that all evidences were pointing
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towards Russia [as having blown them up], even though there was never put forward any evidence [for that], and [NATO’s chief] Stoltenberg even implied this could have
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been an Article Five attack {meaning that it might justify WW3 against Russia], but this was before the Seymour Hersh article which blamed the US [Biden] for the
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attack. And then, we saw the narrative shift. The United States began to argue that it was a pro-Ukrainian group on a
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sailboat who were behind this attack, and several NATO countries then began
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these investigations which we want to ask about today. Russia {the co-owner of the Nord Stream pipelines along with Germany] was excluded from participating in or providing evidence to the investigation. The Russians put
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forward a resolution at the United Nations to establish an independent investigation. From what I understand the
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Western countries all rejected [the Russian proposal for an independent investigation], and we had a Washington Post article quoting a
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European official who said that we don’t ask too many questions because we will probably not like what we find if we
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keep digging. So, for the rest of us, of course, we were asked to keep quiet, not to
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engage in speculations, while the investigators were allowed to do their job. so yeah Mr Polyanskiy, what is the
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current status of those investigations? DMITRY POLYANSKI: Well, I think Glenn you made an excellent recap of what happened
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before, and actually the
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most recent developments were the decisions of Denmark and Sweden
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to actually abandon their own investigation saying that they can’t proceed further because because they
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really don’t see any any prospects of finding someone who is responsible for this; so, it actually means that for
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one year, exactly one year, they were just beating around the bush, and
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my assessment is that they were just trying not to come to these awkward questions that you mentioned that would
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imply very awkward answers, awkward for them who — for those who listen to
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this — answers [the basic question]. So, we now have technically [a] German investigation which
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is going on, and which is a bit weird frankly, because
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the place of the of this sabotage is in Danish territorial waters;
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so, in my understanding, the most important of these investigations should have been Danish one. Germany is an
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affected country in the same way as Russia is an affected country [since they co-own it], but actually it’s a big question what
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kind of uh actions and conclusions Germany can make in the absence of Investigations from Denmark and Sweden [the countries nearest to the crime] so
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I don’t think it will be a surprise for everybody when Germany will come to more or less the same conclusions. If I
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compare it to to criminal investigation, that would mean that after a
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murder, after a year of investigation then, all of a sudden, the
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investigators come to the conclusion that the person was murdered, and that’s actually the outcome of Danish and
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Swedish investigations, so we wasted one year. It was not
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by chance. I think that it was deliberately to conceal the proofs,
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conceal the facts on the ground. Of course, now it’s it’s much more difficult to conduct investigation. …
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.