Devil's advocate: Russia could safely assume that many westerners would blame the US for obvious reasons. Enthusiasm for the war has deflated in NATO countries as a result of the attack because they assume the US did it, such as the German bundestag voting against sending more weapons to the Ukraine. There has been a notable shift in the coverage of the war, as if the west is now resigned to letting Russia win. There was no reason for regime media to show Putin's speech nor write headlines declaring that Russia had annexed parts of the Ukraine, unless the media is pivoting and prepared to let Russia have it. The destruction of NS also shores up the Russian alliance with China as Beijing knows they will be able to rely on Russia for cheap gas.
The Baltic is too far away from China and Germany doesn't have the capability. The only powers that could hit a pipeline 70m underwater in the Baltic without getting caught is the US, Russia and maybe—emphasis on the maybe—the UK.
Russia doesn't really have the capabilities. 70m isn't that deep and the Danes have advanced SONAR that they bought off the US that would detect Russian submarines operating in the area. Anyone operating in the area would need to have a reason to be there, which the US has had.
Oh, yeah, as if no one on Russian TV would be like, "oh yeah, it's definitely the US that blew up the pipeline" if Tucker Carlson didn't say it first.
List of who knows it was the USA:
Russia
Germany
Denmark
UK
USA
...
List of those who don't know it was the USA:
Idiot American journalists who've actually swallowed the regime flavor-aid.
Idiots who take idiot American journalists seriously.
I mean come on; I haven't seen our resident pro-Ukraine posters try to deny it was the US.
I'll follow that up by going 64 words previous in your own article
As far as I’m concerned, a person’s willingness to believe Russia might have bombed their own pipelines is a proxy for an IQ test.
Devil's advocate: Russia could safely assume that many westerners would blame the US for obvious reasons. Enthusiasm for the war has deflated in NATO countries as a result of the attack because they assume the US did it, such as the German bundestag voting against sending more weapons to the Ukraine. There has been a notable shift in the coverage of the war, as if the west is now resigned to letting Russia win. There was no reason for regime media to show Putin's speech nor write headlines declaring that Russia had annexed parts of the Ukraine, unless the media is pivoting and prepared to let Russia have it. The destruction of NS also shores up the Russian alliance with China as Beijing knows they will be able to rely on Russia for cheap gas.
The Baltic is too far away from China and Germany doesn't have the capability. The only powers that could hit a pipeline 70m underwater in the Baltic without getting caught is the US, Russia and maybe—emphasis on the maybe—the UK.
Russia doesn't really have the capabilities. 70m isn't that deep and the Danes have advanced SONAR that they bought off the US that would detect Russian submarines operating in the area. Anyone operating in the area would need to have a reason to be there, which the US has had.
Not transliterating the name is propagandistic as fuck.
I mean, it is owned by Bezos…
It just took him somewhat longer than many people might have expected to run the damn thing into the ground…
The guy doesn’t strike me as particularly… “Normal”, so it’s perhaps not surprising that his media empire is starting to reflect that…
But also: dying medium; needs the clicks; etc…
Oh, yeah, as if no one on Russian TV would be like, "oh yeah, it's definitely the US that blew up the pipeline" if Tucker Carlson didn't say it first.
List of who knows it was the USA:
Russia
Germany
Denmark
UK
USA
...
List of those who don't know it was the USA:
Idiot American journalists who've actually swallowed the regime flavor-aid.
Idiots who take idiot American journalists seriously.
I mean come on; I haven't seen our resident pro-Ukraine posters try to deny it was the US.
always has been