Seymour Hersh's Trinity of Truth
Scott Ritter calls Hersh's Nord Stream article "his most important work ever"
In the Christian faith, God comes in the form of three persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Together, these three beings form the Trinity.
In a recent interview with the German writer Fabian Scheidler, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh discussed his bombshell article that appeared in his inaugural posting on Substack, “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline”.
When Scheidler thanked Hersh for his courageous reporting, the veteran reporter shot back, “What’s so courageous about telling the truth? We’re supposed to tell the truth!”
I’ve known Sy Hersh for coming on a quarter century. While I was too young to experience first-hand the impact of his reporting on the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, I had a front row seat to the masterful job he did in bringing to light the horrible facts about what the United States was doing in the Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq.
Legendary status isn’t given—it is earned. And Sy Hersh has earned the absolute right to be called the GOAT when it comes to investigative journalism. He is, simply put, the best.
I’ve read nearly everything Sy Hersh has written, and am able to put his considerable journalistic output in its proper historical perspective. It is therefore that I feel very comfortable in concluding that, in terms of its potential for bringing about tectonic geopolitical change, Sy’s Nord Stream reporting is his most important work ever.
The GOAT has produced what I call the Trinity of Truth.
Truth One: The President of the United States, Joe Biden, by conspiring with members of his national security team to deliberately bypass constitutionally-mandated reporting requirements to Congress regarding acts of war undertaken by the United States, has committed an impeachable offense unmatched by any other president in the history of the United States.
Truth Two: The blow-back that will occur inside Germany to the revelations put forward by Seymour Hersh that the United States carried out an economic Pearl Harbor by destroying energy infrastructure critical to the well-being of the German nation has the potential of breaking up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU), upending more than eighty years of post-war European security and stability, and resulting in the diminishment of the United States on the world stage as it becomes isolated from long-time European allies that served as the foundation of the global acceptance of the so-called “rules based international order” that has served as the means by which the United States exerted global hegemony.
Truth Three: The decision to attack the Nord Stream pipeline puts a lie to the US contention that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was an unprovoked act of aggression, instead underscoring the harsh truth that the United States had a strategic plan which hinged on provoking a conflict with Russia in Ukraine to provide the geopolitical cover for ending Europe’s reliance upon cheap Russian natural gas by demonstrating that every time Russia sought a negotiated end to the crisis, whether before the invasion through implementation of the Minsk Accords, or after in the Istanbul round of talks scheduled for April 1, the United States sabotaged the effort, keeping the conflict alive long enough to implement its major objective—the destruction of Nord Stream.
In short, Sy Hersh, through his reporting, has exposed truths which have the potential of bringing down a presidency, destroying NATO, and proving Russia right in the eyes of the world.
Name one other piece of journalism in the past half-century that packs such a punch.
You can’t.
Sy Hersh is a national—no, an international—treasure, something this Trinity of Truth underscores.
Be sure to treat him as such.
Keep bringing it, Scott. I'm of the preceding generation to yours and saw and heard much of what Sy has brought to the table so significantly in the 20th and now the 21st century. He DESERVES every accolade and so much more than any of his peers who never dared to step out of line for the accompanying risks to potential career renumeration(s) to come. The man is an island of honest moral rectitude.
That said, nobody I can think of off the top of my head comes closer than yourself in the same vein, that is striking while the iron is hot and the dangers to person in full flower.
Your work, your passion, so sorely needed in this hour, is every bit as strengthening as Thomas Paine's was in his time, albeit the armada of censorship arrayed against you is something Paine was able to circumvent only by having like-minded compatriots willing to shoulder the burden in order to make the notional freedom inherent in the Declaration of Independence manifest.
It is our time, it is the hour. And your voice is an integral part of the outcome we all (the Aware) continue to follow for the inspiration you bring.
Godspeed, Good Sir.
The gross Act Of War committed by the USA against an ally is IMHO the biggest story since the outbreak of WW2. It, in itself is bad enough, but there is something else marginally more frightening than this lunatic escapade; it's the cover-up by our news media, which we already knew was appallingly conformist to government and security-service direction, but has shown in it's complete uniformity of non-reaction, that the censorship/propaganda level we are suffering is even worse than imagined. In fact the non-coverage reveals a cowardly obedience _so_ bad that the only sane option for someone interested in the truth (whatever the political shade) must be to completely ignore all main stream news media, or at least assume it is chock full of lies and omissions.