Now we know who sabotaged the pipeline, but...

Who blew up the Kakhovka dam? Flooding could be catastrophic.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from communities in the surrounding areas, as catastrophic floods engulf low-lying areas on either side of the river Dnipro. Flood waters are expected to peak in the coming hours, but UN humanitarian aid chief Martin Griffiths is warning of grave and far-reaching consequences for thousands of people in the affected Kherson region. —BBC

A year after US intelligence agencies quietly admitted that they knew it wasn’t Russia, that blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, comes another barrage of cold-war propaganda regarding the explosion at Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam.

The dam was built in the Soviet era and is one of six that sit along the Dnipro River, which stretches all the way from the very north of the country into the sea in the south. In the Kherson region, Russia occupies the left, or southern, bank while Ukraine controls the right, or northern, bank.

According to the Washington Post:

A major dam and a hydroelectric power plant close to the front lines in the south of Ukraine were damaged in a blast early Tuesday. Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate as officials warned of a risk of catastrophic flooding. Ukraine and Russia blamed each other for the explosion.

The dam’s reservoir holds as much water as the Great Salt Lake in Utah and provides a critical water supply for Russian-occupied Crimea.

Reuters had this frightening comment:

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said there was no immediate nuclear safety risk at the plant due to the dam failure but that it was monitoring the situation closely.

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They knew all along who sabotaged Nord Stream. We weren’t told.

The Post reports:

Three months before saboteurs bombed the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the Biden administration learned from a close ally that the Ukrainian military had planned a covert attack on the undersea network, using a small team of divers who reported directly to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces.

So the administration knew all along that it wasn’t Russia who sabotaged the pipeline that supplied badly needed gas to Germany and the rest of Europe, yet continued, using a compliant media, to tell us that it was.

The explosions, which caused "catastrophic" environmental harm as well as possibly irreparable damage to the majority Russian State-owned multibillion-dollar infrastructure, were widely described as a "mystery" by Western media, including The New York Times. Other outlets and officials explicitly blamed Russia for the "deliberate act of sabotage".

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told the BBC, it “seems” Russia was to blame.

While the White House now claims it was done by the Ukraine military, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh insists it was US Navy divers, acting under the direct orders of US Pres. Biden, who planted C4 explosives on the pipelines during routine NATO exercises in June last year, before remotely activating the bombs three months later.

But as late as April 7th of this year, the Times was still pointing a finger at Russia.

NYT reporter Erika Solomon wrote:

Even as Moscow pushes for a joint probe, other findings are pointing fingers back at Russia…It may be in no one’s interest to reveal more.

In “no one’s interest,” really? Who decided that, I wonder?

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I don’t know who blew up the dam and neither do you. But even before the lies we were told about Nord Stream, I recommended treating every word the cold-war propaganda machines in both Russia and the West were turning out with a suspicious eye.

It’s called the fog of war for a reason.

What I do know for sure is that this horrific unwinnable proxy war must be ended through negotiations soon before it wreaks unimaginable havoc, not only on Ukraine but the rest of Europe and the world as well.