The man, last known to have lived in Poland, was one of the divers who allegedly planted explosive devices on pipelines running from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea in September 2022, German media has claimed.
I think that absurd line held in mainstream media for what, maybe two or three months until it was untenable and they started pretending that some Ukrainians did it in a tiny boat
I think that absurd line held in mainstream media for what, maybe two or three months until it was untenableregular people forgot Nord Stream even existed
they started pretending that some Ukrainians did it in a tiny boat
Looks like that's going to be the official line if they're looking to arrest a single guy and maybe a handful of others
It's absolutely absurd to believe that this was done by three people on a tiny fishing boat but that's what's going to enter the public record forever and anyone who disagrees is a tankie
Russia blew up their own pipeline that was printing them money, so that they could lose lots of money AND anger the West more, instead of just turning it off. Or just not doing that.
I'm still not sure who's more idiotic, liberals for buying that obvious batch of lies or the US state apparatus thinking that would work. I guess the liberals are dumber, it did work, despite not standing up to the slightest bit of scrutiny
I am just following Mark Ames’s logic from Radio War Nerd here: if Putin is stupid enough to invade Ukraine, then he is stupid enough to blow up his own pipelines.
You forgot the key ingredient: that Putin is stupid.
He's not though? The guy has managed to maintain power for more than a decade, crush the influence of the oligarchs that ruled before him, avert a coup, crush his opposition and dislodge the US from it's stable position as the undisputed ruler of the globe.
Putin is naive and a right-wing bigoted dickhead, but he's not stupid.