What would happen if someone attacks a major civilian infrastructure?

That depends. If one attacks a US pipeline, he will be hunted to every corner of the Earth. If anyone else destroys Nord Stream supplying natural gas to the US' allies he will be called a terrorist. But now that the Seymour Hersh report points to the US as the suspect of Nord Stream pipeline blow, they simply deny it.

While it takes only a piece of A4 paper for the White House to deny the Hersh report, the whole world must remember how the same White House had denied intelligence failure in Vietnam, Guantanamo Bay torture, and even taken a box of white powder as "evidence" for its invasion of Iraq. Their former secretary of state Mike Pompeo even had a famous quote "We lied, we cheated, we stole", which adds to the world’s lack of trust to the power center of the world’s only superpower.

It wouldn't surprise anybody if Hersh's report is true. In order to drag its European allies deeper into the Russia-Ukrainian military conflict, the US had already emptied its taxpayers' pockets, sending M1 Abrams to Ukraine and taking all measures possible in its toolbox.

US mainstream media outlets have always been fond of digging secrets with much more resources than Hersh, but have remained silent on the issue this time. Which fact makes one further doubt that Washington has mobilized all its power to keep some secret.

If the White House wants the global audiences to believe in its denial of the detailed Hersh report, better show some sincerity by explaining the whole thing at least in equal details. Don’t forget that to attack a major civilian infrastructure as a natural gas pipeline amounts to suspicion of state terrorism.