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[+] 128 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    They swallow the consent manufacturing whole and call conspiracy theorist anyone who doesn't, then it's reveled that it was all lies just like the "conspiracy theorists" said and they "acknowledge" that they've been bamboozled (without acknowledging that the peoples who told them they were were right) and swear that they won't fall for it again, then they fall for it again.

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  • [–] 108 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The United States did this, full stop. If Ukraine did it then the EU is fully naked and unprotected.

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  • [–] 90 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah this is just setting up Ukraine as the fall guy. I still think it was really the US and Norway, like Seymour Hersch said it was: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

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  • [–] 73 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Genuinely, if this was Ukraine then the EU coast is completely naked and anyone with a boat can fuck their infrastructure up. You can tell the EU knows this story is bullshit because they're not doing huge investigations into security. Libs still buy it though.

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  • [–] 89 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    i showed my lib coworker this and they fr did the "concerning, looking into it" meme like thonk

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    i showed my lib coworker this

    how do you have the patience? I gave up on this years ago. it always ends with me "looking crazy"

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  • [–] 78 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    To stop telling the truth for fear of looking crazy, this is a nineteenth type of liberalism.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Frankly I wish i'd been more public and out of pocket with my predictions these last couple years, because I stood to gain a lot of cred when they all came true.

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    [+] 88 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 80 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That narrative never made any sense, anyways. Like, how did even the most credulous westerner explain that to themselves?

    Ze evil Ruzzian orcs, incapable of logic due to their inferior brainpan: "ah, yes, I shall bomb my own pipeline to force the effeminate Europeans to buy oil and gas from the US, this is sure to lead me to victory."

    Like, what's the framing there? That Russia blew up its own pipeline to get people to be mad at Ukraine for cutting off their energy supply somehow? And then the only spin at all was that they just had a single journalist who nobody knows by name and hasn't been relevant for 20 years post about it on a website nobody's heard of behind a paywall?

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago*

    Mark Ames logic: I am very smart, I tell you Putin will never invade Ukraine -> but… Putin invaded Ukraine!! -> Since I am very smart, Putin must be stupid to invade Ukraine -> since Putin is stupid, he is probably stupid enough to blow up his own pipeline

    It took Seymour Hersh to get on RWN for him to shut up about this completely stupid argument of his.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    Ze evil Ruzzian orcs, incapable of logic due to their inferior brainpan: "ah, yes, I shall bomb my own pipeline to force the effeminate Europeans to buy oil and gas from the US, this is sure to lead me to victory."

    I can hear Yugopnik doing his 'ze evil Russian orc' voice in this whole sentence.

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    [–] 76 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The current US Secretary of State literally wrote a book about blowing up Russian gas pipelines. There was always only one suspect here.

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  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't buy it. 6 schmucks just rent a sailboat and some deep sea diving equipment? It's a scapegoat. The only country both capable and incentivized to pull it off is the US. US officials and Biden have said many times they would destroy it. They just can't be seen as responsible for directly attacking Russia and Europe.

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    [–] 66 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    This is diversionary propaganda in my opinion. The goal is to hand over blame of the attack to Ukraine so it doesn't harm the US in diplomacy with Europe and Germany going forwards.

    Oh and we're supposed to believe that Ukraine can pull this off but not be able to get the Crimean Bridge?

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    [–] 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Didn't Biden slip up and kinda admit it at one point?

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  • [–] 83 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Don’t have the video link with me, but 3 weeks before Russia invaded, Biden said “if Russia invades, then we will put an end to Nord Stream”, a reporter then asked “how exactly?” and he said “I assure you we’ll be able to do it.”

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    is there a more cucked country in the world than Germany?

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    The UK. Cucked to both unwavering Atlanticism towards the USA, and a monarchy. Left the EU for the stupidest of all possible reasons. Sent Boris Johnson to sabotage peace deals in Ukraine. Terf island. It just goes on and on.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The UK is definitely the answer. And worse, people are totally, willfully blind to it.

    I remember pointing out where most of the money was coming from for leaving rhe EU (it wasn't Russia, it was American libertarian think tanks, software companies, and healthcare companies) as well as the money that was spent against Corbyn on things like the 'Integrity Initiative' smear abd disinfo campaigns (US gov, UK gov, Facebook, US & UK arms manufacturers, Saudi gov) and people still said 'I don't know about that, why would America care? The papers say it was Russia before the very same people complain about how American our media has gotten.

    People complain about the culture war shit and how it feels like an American import, but if you point out that right wing American think tanks and orgs (from TPUSA to evangelical anti-trans orgs) are funnelling a shit loaf of money here you get blank stares and muttering about how it's probably because we're so similar to the US.

    Our prime minister is a de facto billionaire who has US citizenship and didn't even live here a lot of the time before becoming PM. Keir Starmer, after being a loyal dog of the British security state for years, regularly met with intelligence chiefs in the US long before he was head of the Labour Party. MPs as a whole I've met tend to love the US and have ideas about moving there 'one day' and the smarter/wealthier ones have stock portfolios full of US healthcare companies etc that are lined up to further privatise the NHS. I knew MPs who took paid trips to the US to form working groups with what would have been the Hilary admin before and after 2016 to study, I shit you not, electability, which of course meant building a Democrat-like party whose job it is to completely kill off the left, not to mention all those nice US lobbyists they got to meet.

    But again, if you point that out, people look at you like it's some far out conspiracy theory. The very same people who today complain about America lying and dragging us into the Iraq War are the same people who argue that America doesn't have any control over our foreign policy today.

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    [–] 57 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even this would be an act of war against most of Europe

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Clear bullshit, right?

    If Ukraine could pull this off, I could pull this off. I refuse to believe that international infrastructure could be so vulnerable.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Won't know until in a few decades it all gets declassified but my bet was always a US Navy Special Warfare team, aka SEAL team. That is who the US uses for such operations. Previous week there had been US Navy units doing exercises in the general area. The level of hostility, type of aggressive narrative control, and how key US outlets were already standing ready to suppress certain details made it suspicious from the start.

    The US uses the same playbook again and again, makes people suspicious even when the US might not have been involved in events.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They're really pushing for that Punished Zelensky arc, aren't they? zelensky-pain To be a friend of the West...

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