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Oliver Alexander
Personal blog · oalexanderdk.substack.compoliticssecurity
Oliver Alexander's personal blog at oalexanderdk.substack.com covers politics and security. Since 2023, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack as a rebuttal to Seymour Hersh's reporting on the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, and as a source on Russian naval activity near Nordic infrastructure.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-02-10
- Danish Confirm Russian Minisub at Site of Nord Stream Blasts 4 Days Prior2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-28
What Hacker News says?
See also „Danish Defence Command Confirms Russian Minisub Equipped SS-750 at Site of Nord Stream Blasts 4 Days Prior“ https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/danish-defence-command-c...
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on “Russian navy ship photographed near Nord Stream pipelines before blasts”Submitted Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThere has been a lot of criticism on Seymour Hersh's article. For instance: https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blowing-holes-in-seymour...
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on “Energy Firms Hacked in Largest Coordinated Attack on Denmark's Infrastructure”Submitted Danish Confirm Russian Minisub at Site of Nord Stream Blasts 4 Days Prior as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHersh's theory was thoroughly debunked [1]. See also our own HN comments on this [2], [3]. [1] https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blowing-holes-in-seymour... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34821872 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34743078
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on “Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines”Submitted Is the Akademik Cherskiy to Blame for the Southern Nord Stream 2 Rupture? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBear in mind that the report you're referencing (written by Seymour Hersh) has factual issues, and should be taken with a large grain of salt. https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blowing-holes-in-seymour...
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on “Russian “research ships” are likely preparing sabotage on Nordic infrastructure”Submitted Osint Analysis: Six Russian Ships Active Near Nord Stream Sabotage Site as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInteresting. That would invalidate everything written by https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/ . But see https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1666115592133156864 . The source of WPs information seems to be shaky.
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on “US had Intel of Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream project – Washington Post”Submitted Was the Nord Stream 2 Rupture an Accidental Catalyst? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHersh's narrative has been thoroughly debunked: https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blowing-holes-in-seymour... Russia benefits from infighting among the allies of Ukraine. That gives them a pretty big incentive.
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on “Finnish president says undersea pipeline, cables damaged by 'external activity'”Submitted The Nord Stream Andromeda Story: What We Know and What We Don’t as a story · 1 points
HN discussionComplete bunk: https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blowing-holes-in-seymour...
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on ““How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline””Submitted Debunking Seymour Hersh's Alta-Class Claims as a story · 1 points
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