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[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not disputing you but very interested in reading more and sources - I always was very skeptical the volunteer Ukrainian saboteurs angle

[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The author of this article has a very strong track-record, so I choose to trust it. Though it does rely on anonymous sources. https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for linking, but while there’s smoke and circumstance, it’s not a fire imo. Anonymous source, not sources.

And Hersh seems to have fallen from the tightrope of critical analysis and skepticism, into acceptance of conspiratorial narratives from shaky actors.

[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

His reporting has always relied on anonymous sources, and has always panned out in the long run. Nothing's changed, we're just not far enough removed from the war in Syria for the propaganda to lose control of the narrative in the west.

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

In seeking to decouple from state propaganda, it is important to critically examine alternative sources, lest you be duped into becoming a state mouthpiece.