Now that everyone believes that Russia bombed its own pipeline, they can quietly admit that it was US/Ukraine

The people who called us conspiracy theorists and Putin lovers for saying all along that it wasn't Russia will never apologize or acknowledge their mistake, and they'll swallow the next obvious lie without a moment's hesitation.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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read theory!

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

bullshit the Ukrainian military couldn't coordinate a herd of sheep

This is the liberal playbook though. They did this with the Iraqi "wmds" and every CIA coup ever.

link to an archive of the full article: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/kwUkH

looks like they’re scapegoating a lower level special forces ghoul who is already on trial for botching a separate failed operation. They’re claiming he acted without Zelensky’s knowledge lmao

This is what passes for a news sub here? Lol

The purpose of the whole effort to shift responsibility for this attack on to Ukraine itself has become apparent with legal shenanigans like this: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/04/23/uk-insurers-refuse-to-pay-nord-stream-because-blasts-were-government-backed/