The Lead: How Norway Helpled America Blow Up The Nord Stream Pipeline
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Journalist Seymour Hersh published a follow-up to his investigation that alleges that the United States blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline with the help of Norway. In this week’s follow-up, he answers the question: Why Norway?
He points out that Norway has a 60-year relationship with the United States to start wars. In fact, they were successful in starting the Vietnam War with help of the Norwegian Navy and top-of-the-line ships called “Nasty Class,” which surely sounds cooler in Norwegian than it does in English.
We are being asked here to remember the Vietnam War, which almost nobody now thinks was a good idea. It was an age-old they-fired-first lie that cost millions of lives, mostly innocent Vietnamese civilians and close to 60,000 U.S. soldiers. And Norway here is a complicit actor yet again.
So if the Vietnam War had a similar origin story with Norway as a partner in crime, it would be naive not to ask: Is this the sequel?
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