Americans need to wake up to the realities of a post-unipolar world before it’s too late.

The journalist who broke the Nord Stream sabotage story has claimed that America’s leaders still behave like “cold warriors”

Lots of blame, no hard evidence

The United States transformed the original NATO defensive constitution into its own professional warmonger whose aggression in the Balkans, North Africa and the Middle East were perfectly symbolized in the statement by Madeleine Albright that the killing of half a million children in the Iraq War of 2013-2017 – more than half the number who died in the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima – was “worth it”- Worth what? The preservation of US global dominance?

As supermarkets ration vegetables no such hardships afflict Putin’s citizens. The images suggest the West’s much-vaunted sanctions are not having a bite

One month after Seymour Hersh reported that the US blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, US officials find a scapegoat in Ukraine and stenographers in the New York Times.

There is a cardinal difference between the Washington Post report of June 18, 1972 by Alfred Lewis breaking the news of the Watergate burglary and the sensational claim by the New York Times on Tuesday — per a CNN report — that “intelligence suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group” sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

On February 19th, the National Mall in Washington, DC saw its largest antiwar rally in 20 years. The speakers list included four former US presidential candidates and a broad and diverse collection of antiwar activists from beyond the left and right.

An incident with such grave environmental, energy and security implications should be properly investigated with the guilty party held accountable. Having appeared to blame Russia for the explosions, the US should welcome an international investigation – unless it has something to hide.

Ivan Katchanovski is a Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist based in Ottawa. He teaches at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.