re: I’m Starting To Lean To The US Blowing Up Nordstream Because Of The Select Media Stories

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Yes. It works at the behest of the regime in power and works to usurp any narratives against that regime. You can continue to pretend that these people are freedom fighters, but the rest of sane society knows better.

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What? Intelligence agencies are concerned with one thing and one thing alone, the security of the state and its interests. If there is something the US does that isn't in the interest of European allies, it isn't like there will be no evidence of it occurring. There have been several distinct times where Western intelligence agencies saw things entirely differently and those concerns were voiced. You are suggesting a scenario which doesn't make sense from the perspective of the people who it affects the most.

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No. Which is why I find it telling that the lefties are so dug in on killing this debate. The US is as plausible a culprit as anyone.

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Of course they are. We have to proportion belief to the evidence on hand. But the evidence here has amounted to 'the US could have done it' without fully exploring all the options. There hasn't even been a decent description of why a possible third-party might seek to disrupt European oil supplies, because that would begin to include nations in the Eastern Med.