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      I actually took the time to read through the article, now I wish I hadn’t. The whole thing reads like a spy novel conspiracy theory so I had to look up the site… and sure enough, they are actually rated as very low on factual reporting based on their frequent conspiracy theories. I do find it interesting that their rating is also “Far-Left Biased”,makes me feel like this whole article was an attempt to shift that back towards center.

      Then again, it was also expected. OP posts at least one article a day weakly attempting to bash the Biden administration, so this is par for the course.

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        It is an article by Seymour Hersh. They adapted it verbatim from his substack: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/a-year-of-lying-about-nord-stream

        He has won multiple journalistic awards including Pulitzer. Not a good look for you that your immediate reaction on reading something that upsets you is to immediately hop on to a garbage website like mediabiasfactcheck to vindicate your fairytale biases without engaging in any critical analysis.

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          Oh the article upset me? Wow I’m glad you let me know, or I would have missed that! I actually said at the time that while it was a nice theory that Russia was trying to sway public opinion towards themselves, I didn’t actually think they could pull off something like that. Keep in mind I never said the idea was crazy, just that I don’t trust either the website nor the style in which this was written.

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            I am sorry. I genuinely thought you were upset that the OP posts articles that besmirch the veritable Biden administration since you jumped to grasping at straws like the writing style and the mediabiasfactcheck report instead of assessing the original source and author of the article which are usually much better indicators of reliability.

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    Media bias / fact check for Mint Press News:

    Overall, we rate Mint Press Far-Left Biased and Questionable based on the publication of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience anti-Israel propaganda, poor sourcing, failed fact checks, and false claims.

    You got a better source for this, OP?

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      Seymour Hersh is an award-winning journalist who’s well-known for uncovering rampant government corruption. His record includes coverage of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, Saudi support for al-Qaeda leading up to 9/11, and the so-called “weapons of mass destruction” and “nuclear materials” used to justify the invasion of Iraq.

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      Look, the commentor knows how to Google, but not well.

      Every media source is biased, some are just open about their biases while others like to hide theirs. Take the time to read with a critical eye instead of dismissing the source because some website told you they couldn’t be trusted.

      There are plenty of examples of mainstream, Western sources publishing absolute garbage, they just have better optics.

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    I read all the theories. All I can muster is ‘oh no, not Russia’s pipeline.’ Seems like however you cut it, Russia did this to themselves by invading Ukraine. They were kind of on a more decent path towards meaningful integration for a minute. Would have been good for common Russians and everyone else if they’d stayed on that path. But, instead their leadership decided on extreme aggression.

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        Doesn’t really matter who paid for it so long as it’s intent is to send oil/gas one way and huge amounts of money the other way.

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            Because it wasn’t blown up because of who funded it but rather who it benefits most. I’m not saying it’s right but it’s at least a save thought.

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          It does matter, as Germany is a NATO member, and the pipelines were critical infrastructure and blowing them up would be an act of war.

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      If America did blow up the pipelines, it would have been a NATO country blowing up critical infrastructure (an act of war) of another NATO country (Germany).

      That would, in fact, be a very fucking big deal.

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      It is (or rather was, before America destroyed it) also German infrastructure, it’s not just “Russia’s pipeline”.

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      Spot the yank. You terrorist scumbags started this war to “weaken Russia” and carried out this sabotage to make sure Europeans were forced to buy your stinking environmentally destructive LPG. It was Russia and Europe’s pipeline.

      You can’t compete in the free market, you can’t compete in war with anyone, so all you’ve got is bullshit like this and terrorist scumbaggery.

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        Lol, sure, the US started the war by making Russia invade Ukraine. It’s amazing how many US spies there are in Russia to be able to make them invade another sovereign country on US’s behalf.

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      No. It isn’t. At all.

      The only reason for it to be Russia would be as a false flag event whereas almost every other country involved in the conflict, except for Germany, has more of a motive for blowing them up.

      Also, the evidence points to either the US, if you believe Seymour Hersh, or a Ukraine special forces team through Poland, if you believe Germany.

      At this point no one, including the US, is saying it was Putin/Russia. You’re just being ignorant and repeating the supposition that came out immediately after they were blown up.