The claim that Russia blew up its own pipeline functions, whether intentionally or not, as a test of our collective intelligence, and it’s worrisome how many fail the test. As a former Pentagon official put it, “a child could tell you that doesn’t make sense”.
They talk a lot about Russian propaganda and suppression of their media, which I don’t doubt for a minute. But how useless is our media? They don’t need to be suppressed or silenced because they are willing send out the most incredible nonsense apparently without having to be coerced.
Nuggets from our so-called free media over the last couple of years have included:
The lab leak was a “racist conspiracy theory”.
The idea that criminal drug companies could possibly lie about the safety of medical treatments was “dangerous medical misinformation”.
Meanwhile safe and effective preventive vitamin D supplements were given virtually no air time.
A senior Pfizer employee casting doubts on the safety of their product, not to mention the morality of those in charge of injecting billions - that’s not a story according to our media.
Twitter (and presumably other social media) being covertly all but run by the FBI - again is judged by the mainstream media not to be a story worth covering.
Now we are told that Russia is blowing up its own pipelines and bridges. Are we fools? Are they for real?
If we can’t trust them about those things, why should we trust them when they say China is spying with balloons and unidentified objects being shot down. I don’t know what that’s all about but we sure as hell aren’t likely to find out by watching the news of listening to the government.
Given that the destruction of Nordstream 2 is one of the biggest or the biggest attacks on foreign infrastructure in history, and can be construed in international law as an act of war, what kind of retaliation can we expect? If there is retaliation many won’t even see it coming because our media is complicit in lying about what actually happened.