The morning headline trends in Danish media
Jyllands-Posten - pointing to Russia
Sources: Explosives may have been placed several weeks ago
And next there is a picture of an alleged Russian soldier from Crimea in 2014 and this headline:
Is it Putin's new secret war against the West?
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Has Putin attacked the vulnerable West with a new kind of secret war?
Hybrid war, it's called. This is what is happening in the Baltic Sea right now, say politicians and experts. It is war by other methods. But the goal is the same.
And:
The financial and public administrative systems are highly digitalized. But since most connect out of the country, and US in particular, who will rule the outcome of any investigation? Anyway, on day three, they have settled for Russia as the offender, perhaps taking the hint from the Brigadier General in the
post yesterday.
Brigadier General Carsten Rasmussen, former defense attache in Moscow, in a smaller analysis of possible motives for attacks on the gas pipelines, has also criticized Sikorski's statement for being an obvious opportunity for exploitation in Russian propaganda. Regardless of whether it has a basis in truth or not.
One politician who in 2019 advocated for the Nord Stream 2 has been attacked. The wording is such, though this is less clear in the translation, that they use the article to insinuate that he was in the wrong defending NS2, because he saw it was just a business deal. But in their critique of him, they also end up revisiting the Danish resistance to the project, and since money could have come into the state coffers, even if Denmark did not itself buy the gas, it clearly shows that Denmark or more precise its handler, the US, did not want NS2.
And:
Søren Espersen on Nord Stream 2 statements: 'I don't owe any apologies'
The Danish Democrats' Søren Espersen thundered for years against the then VLAK government's cautious attitude towards the Nord Stream 2 project. On top of Tuesday's events, he acknowledges that in the light of hindsight it was a mistake, but still stands by what he said at the time.
Søren Espersen refuses to crawl to the cross.
This despite the fact that the former DF politician, who now sits in the Danish Parliament for the Danish Democrats, for years railed against the VLAK government and the then opposition parties S and R's concerns about the construction of Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines through Danish maritime territory.
The same pipes that are now leaking huge amounts of gas into the Baltic Sea through large holes, just off the coast of Bornholm, as a result of a suspected targeted sabotage action, with several experts pointing to Russia as a possible mastermind.
'This is a fairly banal trade agreement, where the Germans want the Russian gas and Russia wants to deliver. There is nothing more to it. They have turned it into a big political game, which is quite unreasonable,' said Søren Espersen about the Nord Stream 2 project in 2019 to
DR.
For context one needs to know that he until earlier this year was a prominent member of a centre-right populist party, that was despised by "good democrats", and now is a member of a new centre-right party.
DR (Public media): focus on climate and infrastructure vulnerability
There was a picture of the large leak with a headline quoting a professor saying the leak is not a big climate issue
When scrolling down, there was this remarkable juxtaposition, even if unintended.
To the left you have the hurricane and to the right the largest leak and then in the right lower corner a comment on digital infrastructure. The translations of the headlines:
One of the strongest hurricanes in US history has made landfall in Florida: 'Prepare for some nasty days'
Sabotage on gas lines shows a sore spot in underwater surveillance
The UN names Denmark as world champion in digital infrastructure
The price of the gas line was only 20 billion USD, this is not much
compared to the destruction caused by an Atlantic hurricane hitting the US, that can run into more than a hundred billion USD, but one could also say that the utility value of reliable gas far supersedes the value of the line itself.
Berlingske has:
Russia: Denmark is 'completely controlled' by American intelligence services.
Berlingske is usually not missing out on the daily dose about Russia, Putin etc., so that was a surprise.
To make matters more interesting, below the above headline, there is another
'Political suicide bomb' and sabotage is an advantage for the prime minister – and now Khader raises his voice after a long period of silence
And it gets better, further down there is a clip with Biden:
Joe Biden made an embarrassing mistake on the podium. It is because of these kinds of episodes that it is no longer just the right-wing media that is debating whether Joe Biden is debilitated by age.
And as if to hammer the message, they decided to publish a review of a book: "
He makes you more stupid". When clicking the link and translating, one gets:
Book review: David Trads' book about America is deeply unnuanced.
Thursday 29 September 2022, at 09.23
BENT BLUDNIKOW
One of the crucial new conditions that occurred during President Trump's tenure – although there had been trends even before he won the election – was that the establishment media turned against him and that the media abandoned any attempt to act objectively.
In an endless stream of articles from The New York Times, The Washington Post and, among others, CNN, you could read every day that Trump was a lying person and a dangerous fascist.
For over three years, the media reported that Trump had rigged the election in a conspiracy with Russia. When it turned out that the accusation was a lie and that the campaign involved Hillary Clinton and her staff, at the time there was not a word about it, either in the established American or in the European press, which had otherwise filled these years their columns with the conspiracy charge.
Here is the picture:
And further down:
They are the whole of Europe's lifeline in a cold winter. Now the country is suddenly an obvious target
After the discontinuation of Russian gas, most of Europe has become deeply dependent on Norway, and concern is growing. 'Norwegian gas is probably right now the biggest sabotage target in Europe,' assesses an expert.
And that is true. No matter who they think sabotaged NS1 and NS2, it now only takes two missile strikes to give Europe a rude awakening. One is the new gas line between Norway, Denmark and Poland, the other the one from Ukraine.
This means that Europe can now be easily blackmailed by several parties who have conflicting interests.
The turnaround at Berlingske, even if it might have been just for one hour, but that they had the audacity to quote Russian sources saying Denmark is completely controlled by US Intelligence, which could be backed up by single instances in their own archive, and the remark in Jyllands-Posten from yesterday regarding the statement of Sikorsky, "Thank you USA", with the paraphrase of the analysis from the Brigadier General, "Regardless of whether it has a basis in truth or not." plus the state media, DR having reduced the concern to infrastructure and climate, shows to me that this case could be turning. Some players are uncertain how to proceed.
