Weren't both these incidents targeting very pro-Russian people
You assume they were "pro-russian". It's very easy for people playing in the russian leadership to misstep and piss off the wrong person in an internal power struggle. It could very well have been that those killed were not saying the right things to the right people and got themselves labelled as traitors, unfairly or not.
Opinionated people can easily step on the wrong toes in an authoritarian regime. It's happened in China, too. Lots and lots of "loyal CCP members" have been disappeared because they said or did something that got them put on someone's list in an internal power struggle.
Holy fuck. You're a smart guy, but that's retarded. How can you believe such things?
Because it is the most likely explanation given all the facts and evidence. I've state me case as to why previously. The pipeline was not blown up until a few weeks after it was clear that it would be totally worthless to the Russians, and shortly after Putin announced partial mobilization and had every reason to need to fuel Russian state propaganda with a story about how the Russian people were under attack.
There is a lot of other circumstantial evidence, but when you compare each scenario - as if the US or UK or NATO did it - the Russian scenario makes by far the most sense given the timing. And if you think NATO did it, why wouldn't they do it in March? Why wait until Putin needed it for propaganda in late Sept? Why wait until after Germany had already shut it down indefinitely with no chance of reversing its decision because it had gone on a buying spree from alternative sources in Aug & Sept?
You need to think about it more deeply and examine all the facts and circumstances instead of just saying "omg no one would blow up their own thing! that's unthinkable!"
You assume they were "pro-russian". It's very easy for people playing in the russian leadership to misstep and piss off the wrong person in an internal power struggle. It could very well have been that those killed were not saying the right things to the right people and got themselves labelled as traitors, unfairly or not.
Opinionated people can easily step on the wrong toes in an authoritarian regime. It's happened in China, too. Lots and lots of "loyal CCP members" have been disappeared because they said or did something that got them put on someone's list in an internal power struggle.
Because it is the most likely explanation given all the facts and evidence. I've state me case as to why previously. The pipeline was not blown up until a few weeks after it was clear that it would be totally worthless to the Russians, and shortly after Putin announced partial mobilization and had every reason to need to fuel Russian state propaganda with a story about how the Russian people were under attack.
There is a lot of other circumstantial evidence, but when you compare each scenario - as if the US or UK or NATO did it - the Russian scenario makes by far the most sense given the timing. And if you think NATO did it, why wouldn't they do it in March? Why wait until Putin needed it for propaganda in late Sept? Why wait until after Germany had already shut it down indefinitely with no chance of reversing its decision because it had gone on a buying spree from alternative sources in Aug & Sept?
You need to think about it more deeply and examine all the facts and circumstances instead of just saying "omg no one would blow up their own thing! that's unthinkable!"
Likely Poland did it. Or at least a "pro-Ukrainian group" based here, according to the US intelligence.