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Caitlin Johnstone
Published: 2022-10-03
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2zTM0I0ZW0
it's only a conspiracy theory when it accuses the U.S government the Western political media class has been dismissing as conspiracy theories all claims that the U.S is likely responsible for last month's sabotage of the Nordstrom gas pipelines even while leveling the exact same accusations against Russia without ever using that term which probably says a lot about the way that label has been used over the years
if you think about it at a U.N security Council meeting on Friday U.S Envoy Richard Mills repeatedly accused Russia of promoting conspiracy theories in its Nord stream accusations against the United States saying that quote our Russian colleagues have decided to instrumentalize the security council meeting to spread conspiracy theories and disinformation end quote it's important that we use this meeting not to Foster conspiracy theories but to
focus our attention on Russia's blatant violation of the charter and its crimes in Ukraine Mills argues after saying that the United States categorically denies any involvement in this incident and that there is no justification for the Russian delegation raising conspiracy theories and mass disinformation in this Council Mills then hilariously spends the remainder of his remarks insinuating that it is actually Russia who perpetrated the attacks mentioning
the word infrastructure no less than nine times in his arguments to establish that in Ukraine Russia has a history of attacking critical civilian infrastructure similar to the Pipelines sabotage of critical infrastructure should be of concern to us all Mills said in the context of Russia's aggression against Ukraine we have seen numerous Russian attacks damaging civilian infrastructure we witnessed Russia recklessly seized control of Europe's largest nuclear
power plant risking a nuclear disaster in Europe we saw countless attacks destroying civilian electricity infrastructure despite efforts that we heard today to distract us from the truth to distribute more disinformation and slightly wacky theories the facts on the ground in Ukraine speak for themselves milk Mills concludes Business Insider has a new article out titled the sabotage of gas pipelines were a warning shot from Putin to
the west and should brace for more subterfuge Russia experts warn the experts in question are as follows former CIA director John Brennan who was caught spying on U.S lawmakers and lying about it during the Senate's investigation into CIA torture practices U.S intelligence veteran Andrea Kendall Taylor now a senior fellow at the warmongering think tanks Center for a new American Security whose top donors are the Pentagon
and the arms manufacturer Northrop Grumman Cynthia Hooper a history professor at the College of the Holy Cross and that's it that's all the experts two lying warmongers and a history professor nowhere in the Business Insider article do the words conspiracy or Theory appear contrast this with the recent Associated Press article titled Russians push baseless Theory blaming U.S for burst pipeline which was so frantic to spin
accusations of U.S Nordstrom sabotage as a crazy conspiracy theory that it framed it as something only Q Anon cultists believe the suggestion that the U.S caused the damage was circulating on online forums popular with the American conservatives and followers of Q Anon a conspiracy theory movement which asserts that Trump is fighting a battle against a satanic child trafficking sect that controls world events AP wrote over
and over again we see the majority of conspiracy theory applied to accusations Against One Nation but not the other despite the fact that it's the exact same accusation they are both conspiracy theories per definition their theories about an alleged conspiracy to sabotage Russian pipelines but the Western political media class consistently applies that label to one and never the other here's a link to another Business Insider
article applying the conspiracy theory label to accusations of U.S Nordstrom sabotage here's one from the Independent doing the same here's one from the Washington Post here's one from Newsweek here's one from Vox here's one from the Atlantic Council Think Tank here's one from the Brookings institution Think Tank here's one from Media Matters for America founded by the center for American progress think think tank do you
get the message are you receiving the messaging loud and clear accuse the U.S of sabotaging the Nordstrom pipelines and it's called a conspiracy theory accuse Russia of doing the exact same thing and it's called news and of course by pointing out this cartoonish double standard I do not mean to suggest that both theories are equally well evidenced one wouldn't expect them to be in a contest
in which one party has their own energy infrastructure sabotaged for example there's the fact that the Secretary of State Anthony blinken explicitly said that the sabotage of pipelines delivering Russian gas to Germany offers a tremendous opportunity to end Europe's dependency on Russian energy there's also the fact that a 2019 Pentagon commission study by the Rand corporation on how to overextend and weaken Russia explicitly stated that
the U.S would benefit from stopping nordstream 2. there's also the fact that both President Biden and his under Secretary of State for political Affairs Victoria Newland explicitly said that nordstream 2 would be brought to an end if Russia invades Ukraine the fact that the U.S sanctioned those who built Nordstrom too the fact that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on record saying the U.S wants
Europeans to be more dependent on North American energy than on pipelines from Russia the fact that Germans had just been angrily demanding an end to u.s-led sanctions on Russia and a reopening of Nordstrom gas the fact that U.S naval forces were recently conducting unmanned underwater vehicle drills right where the pipelines were attacked the fact that unmanned underwater vehicles have been found carrying explosive charges near Russian
pipelines in the past the fact that Poland literally just inaugurated a gas pipeline that will transport gas from Norway through Denmark and the Baltic Sea the fact that U.S military helicopters were recorded traveling between the two blast points and along the nordstream 2 pipeline shortly before the explosions and the fact that the CIA has a known history of blowing up Russian gas pipelines butcher if you
think the United States could have any responsibility for this attack at all you're a crazy conspiracy theorist and no different from q and honors who think pedophile Satan worshipers rule the world okay Empire message received does make me wonder about some of those other conspiracy theories you've told us to ignore though
