https://apnews.com/article/b837ae25021807a3caef4aa3043a8013
The suggestion that the U.S. caused the damage was circulating on online forums popular with American conservatives and followers of QAnon
Sorry sweaty only conservatives and far-right groups would believe such a silly thing.
Pretty sure the entire left unanimously came to the conclusion “America did it” within minutes of the news breaking.
Russia had absolutely nothing to do with people coming to that conclusion. It was the spontaneous thought of every single person with a brain.
“A baseless conspiracy theory” is when you blame a geopolitical rival for destroying your pipeline less than a year after the leader of said rival nation publicly stated that he was going to prevent it from being completed
Oh yeah and said rival nation has been behind hundreds of coup attempts, terrorist attacks, and boasts a military & intelligence budget that is higher than most nations’ GDP
I didn’t fully believe the U.S. blew up this pipeline until I read this headline.
Wow, can’t wait to find out what NATO finds out in their investigation :who-did-this:
It really has been wild watching any pretense of anything like integrity, investigation, or even skepticism be beaten out of the media to get the entire US media system banging the war drums to the beat. Fucking incredible.
The entire US (and UK) media was already like this during the Iraq invasion. What frightens me is that they’ve extended that complete propagandistic control to their continental European allies / hostages. I’m used to our press being imperialist, liberal wankers, but i have never seen anything as ferociously jingoist and warmongering from them ever before. Isolated instances, yes, there’s always been a share of natsec ghouls writing commentaries dripping with chauvinist expansionism, but such a united front of journos banging the war drum? Germany hasn’t seen that since the 1940s. There was always some room for dissent, even if it was ignored by policymakers. That’s not allowed anymore, nuance is marked as treason, pacifism is labeled as aiding a hitleresque enemy.
