88 points

I don’t believe this story. I think it’s a limited hangout to cover up the real details of the destruction by US and Norwegians, reported by Seymour Hersh

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They will never admit that it was the US, but just moving away from “Russia bombed its own pipeline” is a big deal

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Yeah, the article really spins it to have been one wolf guy.

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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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It’s ridiculous on its face

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yep

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If it wasn’t the US after all that grandstanding, the world needs to be ridiculing the Biden government for incompetence. How can you brag about being able to shut down a pipeline, send a fucking fleet for a week, then – during the same week that you’re patrolling the seas – get beaten to the punchline by some guys on a sailing trip hoping to relive their youth and find themselves in a changing world that doesn’t understand their gruff humour.

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

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European vassals know better than to question the infinite wisdom of their American masters

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Sir, I need you to upload a high resolution image of your hog to verify your account.

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

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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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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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If the state department told liberals that a unicorn blew up the pipeline, they would believe it

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I still think it was really the US and Norway

As a Norwegian I agree 100%

It’s the exact sort of shit that the demented old cold-war fossils who run our military would get on board with lol

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55 points

read theory!

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what is this?

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Are you some kind of hypnotist?

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