GERMANY DEPLOYS ELITE GSG-9 UNIT TO BALTIC SEAPORT OF NEUSTEDT
When I opened my email a few days ago and saw this story that had been shared by G.A.C.(with our thanks!) I immediately filed it in my "finals" folder, because it's one of those stories that might be just a "minor" blip on the radar, or it might be one of those stories signaling something much larger may be going on. Indeed, that "something much larger" is the subject of today's high octane speculation.
The story, as the headline notes, is that Germany's elite GSG-9 unit has been deployed to the Baltic seaport of Neustedt in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein (which is the German state immediately south of, and sharing a border with, Denmark):
Germany moves to prevent another Nord Stream-style attack – media
Now, there may be some readers here who are unfamiliar with that elite unit of the German police, and unfamiliar with what its history has been. I covered some of this in my book The Nazi international, so I'll review it here: "GSG" stands for Grenzschutzgruppe, or basically, "border protection group," and as such is in that "fuzzy" area of German police and military units that inhabit both the world of police or law enforcement, and military. It's Germany's version of Delta force, the Navy seals, and Border police all rolled into one very nasty elite unit, with a wide mission brief depending on tactical circumstances. As I pointed out in that book, the GSG-9 was deployed decades ago by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt along with British SAS commando units to recapture a Lufthansa airlines flight that had been hijacked and flown to Uganda. The hijackers murdered the pilot and held the passengers hostage. Enter the GSG-9: hostages freed, hijackers shot and killed. End of hijacking. (And you'll note, not a single Lufthansa hijacking from then until now). It was the first significant deployment of a Germany "military" unit outside its borders since the Second World War.
But not the last. The next time we hear of significant GSG-9 involvement beyond the borders of Germany was, believe it or not, during the Oklahoma City bombing aftermath, when the GSG-9 was allegedly deployed by Chancellor Kohl to the United States where it was used to help smuggle the German national Andreas Strassmeir, a former German army captain, a graduate from its war academy, and son of German federal cabinet member Gunther Strassmeir, a minister without portfolio in Kohl's cabinet and, as it turned out, the man who was in charge of the plan for German reunification. Andreas had become a person of interest to the FBI in connection to the Oklahoma City bombing as he had often been seen in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the company of Timothy McVeigh at a local strip bar. A nationwide manhunt was launched for Strassmeir, until he turned up in Berlin and gave a press conference. The GSG-9, it is alleged, had smuggled him out of the USA through the FBI dragnet. If the allegation is true (and I believe it to be so), then this means the GSG-9 is also trained to conduct covert operations of a type more traditionally associated with espionage and intelligence than with para-military or law enforcement, operations requiring false identities and "legends" able to penetrate and exit a foreign country smoothly.
My point in rehearsing all this history is simply that this is a group of people that one does not want to "just casually encounter", nor is it a group that one just casually deploys. Indeed, as the above two examples suggest, their deployment in certain special situations would seem to require direct involvement or authorization of the German federal Chancellor himself.
So now we come to the article, and to the purported reasons for the deployment of its naval-diving specialists to Neustedt; the reasons, as RT is surmising, are revealed by the headline of the article itself: "Germany moves to prevent another Nord Stream style attack":
Germany’s Interior Ministry will permanently station a police tactical unit at the Baltic Sea port of Neustadt to ensure a rapid response to any potential attacks on “critical infrastructure,” Der Spiegel weekly reported on Friday.
The move was reportedly prompted by the September 2022 Nord Stream pipeline blasts, which showed there was a “clear” danger of “acts of sabotage,” the media outlet said, citing security sources.
GSG 9, the counterterrorism division of Germany’s Federal Police, features a maritime deployment unit, GSG 9/2, which has specially trained divers within its ranks and is equipped with speedboats, Der Spiegel said. They can also operate from the country’s Federal Police vessels.
The article then provides some further grist for the high octane speculation mill:
The Nord Stream gas pipelines – the crucial energy infrastructure built to deliver Russian gas to Germany and the rest of Europe - were ruptured by underwater blasts in September 2022. Berlin launched a probe into the incident but has so far not made any results of the investigation public. Moscow has repeatedly stated that the German authorities have refused to share any information with Russia.
Western media outlets have repeatedly reported that a privately funded group of Ukrainian divers was supposedly behind the attack. Some reports also stated that the group allegedly acted on orders from General Valery Zaluzhny, who was later dismissed and became Kiev’s ambassador to the UK.
Russia has repeatedly stated that the US could have had a hand in the incident. In September, the Russian foreign intelligence, the SVR, claimed that Washington and London had masterminded the 2022 sabotage in an act of economic warfare against their EU allies and are now forcing Berlin to hide the truth.
These last three paragraphs are important, because it would seem that the German government is not telling anyone - not Russia, not the United Kingdom, not the United States, nor anyone else - whom its investigation fingered for ultimate responsibility for the bombing. One may safely eliminate two countries from the list of possible or probable guilty parties: Russia, and Germany themselves. Russia would hardly blow up its own pipeline as it constituted a major potential source of income - and hard currency - for Russia. The only circumstances that might have impelled Russia to do so would be to use it as a false flag to enhance its geopolitical goals, a usage of the event which we have not seen Russia undertaking to any great degree. Nor would Germany blow up a source of energy it needs (unless, of course, it was the deranged Mad Madam Merkel who seemed to view all German sources of energy, nuclear and otherwise, as something to be eliminated).
Indeed, the real culprits are strongly suggested by the Russians themselves, the UK and USA, perhaps acting with Ukrainian boots on the ground. I suspect the Russians are correct, and I suspect that Germany also has concluded the same thing. And that places the story about the GSG-9's deployment into a curious light. In the two famous examples of its deployment noted above, the world did not even know the GSG-9 had been deployed until after the operation was completed, and in the case of its rescue of Strassmeir, no official word has ever come from any organ of the German government. It remains a strongly-suspected rumor with only circumstantial evidence in support of it.
So when Germany announces the deployment of the unit via media "leaks and stories" - Der Spiegel has long been suspected of playing the role of "government mouth piece" like the New York Times or Washington Post - the purpose is to serve notice to the real guilty parties that any further sabotage of German infrastructure will be first met with deadly force, and questions of the national identity and connections of the perpetrators of any such event will be asked post facto.
The bottom line? In my opinion, the cracks in NATO just grew a significantly larger, even though the story may seem "small"...
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