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| ▲ | burnt-resistor 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It's probable the US and possibly Norway did it under cover of BALTOPS 22. https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the... Snopes only offers FUD but not a single contradiction or refutation of any of Sy Hersh's reporting or claims other than it boils down to "it relies on a single source". Sometimes, in secret operations, that's the reality. There exist genuine anonymous sources who cannot be revealed themselves. Part of the principle of benefit-of-the-doubt is trusting that Sy Hersh isn't merely looking for a quick payday to sellout his journalistic integrity for a few dollars and that he isn't an easily-fooled novice when it comes to doing due-diligence on sources and facts. It's mostly a disrespectful hit-piece lacking in evidence. With all likelihood, like the identity of Deep Throat, the truth will come out once the source retires and write a book about it. https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/02/10/hersh-nord-stream-sab... | | |
| ▲ | groby_b 5 days ago | parent [-] | | If it weren't Sy Hersh, this might be more believable. The guy has been putting some distance between himself and reality for over a decade now. (Could it be true? Maybe. IDK. No dog in that particular fight. But if you, as an anonymous source, go to Sy Hersh, you're an idiot or don't want large numbers of people to believe what you're saying. Occam's razor suggests the former) | | |
| ▲ | aguaviva 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Yup - he's a genuine tragedy. | | |
| ▲ | burnt-resistor 5 days ago | parent [-] | | So another Aaron Maté? | | |
| ▲ | aguaviva 3 days ago | parent [-] | | From what I know of the guy, I can't see mentioning the two in the same sentence. Hersh's (good) works were truly monumental. I'm not aware of anything that Maté has brought to the table that would be even remotely comparable. And unlike Hersh (who for many years enjoyed a reputation seemingly beyond reproach), Maté seems to have started shooting himself in the foot pretty soon after he became widely known. |
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| ▲ | PittleyDunkin 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Putin sabotaged the 3 centuries of Russia’s progress. What a farcical depiction of the world. There is more to Russia than Putin's opposition to the west. | | |
| ▲ | trhway 5 days ago | parent [-] | | >There is more to Russia than Putin's opposition to the west. definitely. That "more" is the backwater Grand Duchy of Moscow how it was before Peter The Great. | | |
| ▲ | PittleyDunkin 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | As much as I'd like to blithely believe you actually agree with me, who gives a damn about muscovites, particularly from more than 400 years ago? and what bearing does this have on our conversation? | | |
| ▲ | trhway 5 days ago | parent [-] | | the 3 centuries of progress started by Peter The Great - importing European values, educated people and technology, science and education - made that Grand Duchy of Moscow into the, in various times in various aspects, great country of Russia (Russian Empire, USSR). Peter The Great "opened windows" into Europe and to Caucasus (for example in the military expedition of 1724 Peter The Great signed treaty with the Armenian dukes). Putin had been actively reversing that process - under him Russia rejected European values, kicked out or suppressed many educated people, and the Russian tech, science and education is going straight downhill. Putin "closed the European and Caucasus windows". Russia is quickly returning back to that state of the backwater Grand Duchy of Moscow. | | |
| ▲ | PittleyDunkin 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Putin is hardly the first, or the hundredth, or the hundredth-thousandth russian to agonize between asian and european influences on russian culture. Secondly, education is not a "european" value, as much as the west would like to claim it. |
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