The man, last known to have lived in Poland, was one of the divers who allegedly planted explosive devices on pipelines running from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea in September 2022, German media has claimed.
I read some articles in major German MSM outlets and the stuff they write, and the language, is just so insane. Take this "exclusive" article by our dumb version of the NBC (which somehow costs German 2x as much as the Brits pay for their BBC, lol)
Almost two years after the bomb attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, Federal Prosecutor General Jens Rommel has obtained a first arrest warrant against a suspect. According to information from ARD , Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and Die Zeit, this is the Ukrainian Volodymyr Z., who is said to have last been in Poland.
Chief federal prosecutor Erwin Rommel indicts Ukrainian man "Volodymyr Z." - are you friggin' kidding me?
According to the research, two other Ukrainian nationals, including a woman, are considered suspects by investigators. They are also believed to have been involved in the attacks, and may have worked as divers to attach the explosives to the pipelines.
What's this "research" they keep talking about? Do journalists research stuff for the prosecution now? Did the prosecutors leak this information? If so, is that not a felony, or at least extremely unprofessional conduct? Why is there no press conference by the prosecutor? Am I the only one who finds this a little odd?
Investigators from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Federal Police appear to have made a breakthrough in one of the most spectacular cases of the past decades. While Sweden and Denmark had already closed their investigations into the case at the beginning of the year, the Federal Prosecutor General (GBA) continued his proceedings on suspicion of "intentionally causing an explosion" and "anti-constitutional sabotage". A spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutor General left questions about the arrest warrant unanswered.
Well did they make a breakthrough, or didn't they? Why does it "appear" like they did? Why is there no press conference? Oh there was a press conference, but they refused to answer? Where do you get this information then?
According to the research, the investigators were apparently able to collect sufficient evidence in recent months to obtain an arrest warrant against the Ukrainian Z. from an investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice at the beginning of June. In June, the German prosecutors are said to have approached the Polish authorities with a European arrest warrant in the hope that the suspect could be arrested.
Well why didn't the Poles arrest him then? What's all this European transnational legal stuff worth if it can't be enforced? What about EUROPOL, and INTERPOL?
According to research by ARD , SZ and Die Zeit, German investigators assumed that Wolodymyr Z. was last living in a town west of Warsaw. However, the Ukrainian is said to have recently gone into hiding. It is unclear whether he is now back in Ukraine.
What? How is this not a supranational super-inportant investigation, with backing from the German government? Aren't we like, the 4th largest economy on the planet or something? How is this not a complete shamble, where at least 20 or so heads of public office holders have to roll?
In a brief phone call on Tuesday, Z. expressed surprise at the accusation. He denied having been involved in the attacks on Nord Stream.
What telephone interview? Who interviewed him? Why wasn't he interviewed by the police, or prosecutors? Why was he not immediately apprehended then?
Okay so maybe I've fried my brain or something, I don't know, but this whole article seems EXTREMELY suspect to me. Why all these "investigations", and still there's nothing solid?
Nordstream 2 alone cost like 10 BILLION Euros. Even if the cost was split 60:40 between Russia and Germany, which I think it was, that's still close to 10 BILLION dollarinos for the four pipelines in total, over what, 20 years of build time? And the destruction of this much money is investigated in such a lackadaisical fashion, and nobody raises an eyebrow? Completely insane.
Tomorrow at work people will talk about how they're certain that Russia did it, but at least our brave investigators have a clue now, and anyway we don't need this dirty Russian gas, and oh our economy will surely fire back up once we got rid of all these immigrants. Nobody questions this bizarre narrative, and all the bizarre things written about this "investigation". I'm losing my sanity here.
Please help me, President Xi!
That's why it caught my eye! Sure people are going to have the same last name as historical monsters, it happens, but giving your kid the same name as a fucking nazi general? That sets off the
The schmuck who wrote this garbage probably truly believes that it's a piece of "unbiased" and "objective" reporting.
I've met enough of these idiots to know that, as a profession, they truly believe there's such a thing as objective reporting and that they're doing it - or coming as close to it as possible. I've had so many discussions with these idiots which boils down to me just repeating myself because they can't seem to get the basic fact that "when you report on something you have to make decisions on what to include and exclude, and just by doing this basic thing you are no longer presenting an objective retelling of events. Any depiction of the truth requires that you decide how to depict it".
If you wanna bring up how money or politics influences it, forget it. They'll go full whatabou- oh wait no it isn't that, because we're the uh... The good guys... They'll point out how China is totally worse actually. Then they'll want a discussion about what censorship really is, but fuck me if I wanna have a discussion about censorship with an idiot who doesn't understand that "when you write about something, you're making a decision just by way of how you write it." Especially when I've read these idiots articles about protests that got teargassed and they all contact the chief of police for a quote. It's insane how often I've read the phrase "the police was forced to deploy sticks and teargas."
Journalists are the dumbest people around and they really suck because they think they're smart and enlightened.
If you were enlightenedas a journalist you'd start out by accepting you're a propagandist, that's your job. Only by accepting the actual state of affairs will you be able to address them. I fucking hate journos, dumb smug brickheaded pieces of shit. It should be legal to drown them
Imagine you're a liberal journalist working at one of the largest news sites in your country, then you write an article like this.
Most liberals are technocrats and they like to pretend to be professionals.
How can you take yourself seriously after covering Nord Stream in western journals, and not sounding the alarm bells that this is complete and utter bullshit? Even worse for Germans, this could be considered treason, at least in some sense.
How are their heads not exploding from the cognitive dissonance?
like for fucking real if you want to shit on germany there are a billion fucking reasons to do so, but someone blowing up ten billion dollars of pipe isn't fucking shit on the radar
And the destruction of this much money is investigated in such a lackadaisical fashion, and nobody raises an eyebrow? Completely insane.
You have to understand that Germany is now more of a vassal of the US, which is kinda insulting to medival vassal relations. During the Cold War there was some leeway, but Merkel got rid of all of that.