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Murdoch Propaganda Pushes Australia To Double Its Military Budget For War With China
Link: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/murdoch-propaganda-pushes-australia
Caitlin Johnstone | In the latest escalation in Australia's increasingly forceful campaign to manufacture consent for war with China, the Murdoch-owned Sky News Australia has aired a jaw-droppingly propagandistic hour-long special which advocates a dramatic increase in the nation's military spending. | Australians are uniquely vulnerable to propaganda because our nation has the most concentrated media ownership in the western world, the lion's share of it by Rupert Murdoch, who has well-documented ties to US government agencies going back decades. The propaganda campaign against China has gotten so aggressive here in recent years that I've repeatedly had complete strangers start babbling at me about the Chinese threat in casual conversation, completely out of the blue, within minutes of our first meeting each other. ● The Sky News special is one of the most brazenly propagandistic things I have ever witnessed in any news media, with its opening minutes featuring footage of bayonet-wielding Chinese troops marching while ominous cinematic Bad Guy music plays loudly over the sound of the marching.
Biden makes surprise visit to Kyiv ahead of one-year war anniversary
Link: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/02/20/Ukraine-Biden-Zelensky-visit-Kyiv/5471676891991/
President Joe Biden arrived in Kyiv on Monday for a surprise visit to show solidarity with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion approaches. | Biden confirmed his trip to the Ukrainian capital in a White House statement early Monday morning. 💬 "As the world prepares to mark the one-year anniversary of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, I am in Kyiv today to meet with President Zelensky and reaffirm our unwavering and unflagging commitment to Ukraine's democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. When [Russian President Vladimir] Putin launched his invasion nearly one year ago, he thought Ukraine was weak and the West was divided. He thought he could outlast us. But he was dead wrong." ● Biden said he entered into talks with Zelensky and his team about extending United States' support for the country as the Russian invasion endures. He also said his administration would add new sanctions against Moscow. ● Biden had been scheduled to visit neighboring Poland this week, a NATO ally and supporter of Ukraine to discuss "collective efforts to support Ukraine and bolster NATO's deterrence," the White House said. (Ground News // Articles)
US the biggest obstacle to ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Link: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202302/1285750.shtml?id=11
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is approaching its one-year mark, with no end in sight. | [The conflict] is eating up scarce European resources, preventing millions of refugees from returning home and weakening the global economic outlook while the US and some European countries are fanning the flames of the war, keeping sending weapons to Ukraine. How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict end? What are the biggest stumbling blocks for negotiation and diplomatic resolution? ● In an interview with Global Times (GT) reporter Yu Jincui, Brian Berletic (Berletic), a geopolitical analyst and a former solider of US Marine Corps, said the biggest obstacle to any diplomatic solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict is that Russia is fighting the US and its allies which are waging a proxy war via Ukraine. "The US now seeks to extend this proxy war for as long as possible with a desire to raise the cost for Russia as much as possible," he noted.
■ US must change stance on Ukraine — China’s Foreign Ministry (TASS)
The war upon us all is the war we will win
Protesters Descend On Washington, Demand NATO's Dissolution, Peace Negotiations with Russia
Anti-war protesters descended onto Washington DC on Sunday to demand that the United States stop sending weapons to Ukraine, disband NATO, and join China and Russia in creating a multi-polar world, among other demands. | The Rage Against the War Machine rally was attended by roughly a thousand people and included former State Department speakers, politicians, journalists, and activists. Former Senators Ron Paul (R-TX) and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and former Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) headlined the event and called for unity among the anti-war movement.
💬 “I know some people, who wouldn’t show up to this peace rally, this anti-war rally, because of some of the speakers they had lined up on stage,” Jimmy Dore, a comedian and popular podcast host said on stage. “I get what they are saying ‘hey, I want to stop a nuclear war, but not with those people' […] The people who won’t be attending today never had any intention of doing so. If it wasn’t one of the speakers, it would have been the weather. It would have been because they have more important things to do than survive. They will be at home watching CNN not cover this all day.”
The protest was criticized, mostly from the left, for hosting some speakers who hold conservative views on social issues, and for being organized in part by libertarian groups.
■ Former US presidential candidates rally against ‘war machine’ (RT.com) | Former US Congresswoman and presidential candidate, Tulsi Gabbard, addressed the crowd of several hundred people with a reminder of what caused her to run in 2020, and how there was 💬 “no other candidate willing to talk about… the dangers where this new Cold War and nuclear arms race would eventually lead.” “And so here we are. Two short years later what I warned about then is now a reality. This proxy that we are fighting against Russia right now could turn at any moment into a direct conflict between the United States/NATO and Russia,” she said, warning that “anyone with a little bit of common sense” knows that a Cold War can at any moment turn into a hot war against a nuclear-armed country.”
[EU vassals] brands Hersh’s investigation of Nord Stream blasts as 'speculation'
Link: https://tass.com/world/1578651
It is stressed that the only basis for any possible response can be the outcome of an official investigation [which they will prevent from happening] | BRUSSELS, February 20. - The European Commission considers the conclusions drawn by US journalist Seymour Hersh that the Nord Stream gas pipelines had been blown up by the US with Norway’s support under the cover of the BALTOPS exercise as "speculations" and is not going to comment on them, the commission’s Press Officer Andrea Masini told TASS on Monday. 💬 "We do not comment on speculations about the perpetrators of the sabotage against the Nord Stream pipelines. The only basis for any possible response can be the outcome of an official investigation," the official said. ● This response to a request by TASS was the first European Commission’s reaction to Hersh’s article published on February 8.
Meanwhile, springing up on billboards and farmers’ trucks across Canada!
Link: https://twitter.com/SassyCanuckGal/status/1613909081290604544?cxt=HHwWgIDUocbw4OUsAAAA
Meanwhile, springing up on billboards and farmers’ trucks across Canada! #StopTheShots pic.twitter.com/MmpeLf4UvI
— Sassy (@SassyCanuckGal) January 13, 2023
World at War NATO Chief Admits: “War Didn’t Start In February Last Year, The War Started In 2014”
💬 “The other thing I will say is that the war didn’t start in February last year. The war started in 2014. And since 2014, NATO Allies have provided support to Ukraine, with training, with equipment, so the Ukrainian Armed Forces were much stronger in 2022, than they were in 2020, and 2014. And of course, that made a huge difference when President Putin decided to attack Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said.
With the one-year anniversary of Russia’s Feb.24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine just around the corner, NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg this week issued some surprising words regarding the history and origin of the conflict. In essence he finally admitted an important truth, which is of course extremely rare among top Western officials these days. ● Whereas prior to these fresh remarks by Stoltenberg, US and NATO officials including major media, have framed the invasion exclusively as merely one man’s (Putin) ‘unprovoked’ naked aggression bent on enlarging an ‘expansionist Russia’, Stoltenberg now much belatedly admits “the war didn’t start in February last year. The war started in 2014.“
Eric Zuesse | The U.S. regime under Barack Obama had been planning, ever since June 2011, a takeover of Ukraine, in order to become enabled ultimately to place its nuclear missiles within less than five minutes flying-time to a first-strike blitz destruction of the Kremlin | Clear and convincing evidence will be presented here that, under U.S. President Barack Obama, the U.S. Government had a detailed plan, which was already active in June 2013, to take over Russia’s main naval base, which is in Sevastopol in Crimea, and to turn it into a U.S. naval base. There can now be no question that the war in Ukraine started, and resulted from, the U.S. Government’s plan to take over all of Ukraine, and especially to take over that Russian naval base, in Crimea, which then was in Ukraine. ● The war in Ukraine didn’t start at the time when a lot of people think it did, with the overthrow of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych. It was already underway considerably before that time, because it started in Washington, as the following masterful 11-minute documentary makes clear — it started as a subterranean war by Washington to take over Ukraine before it became an overt war (a “civil war”) within Ukraine.
The Maidan sniper killings were pivotal for the 2014 Kiev coup – why is research into the massacre being censored in the West? | Evidence that external forces were involved has been suppressed for ‘political reasons’ | Political scientist Ivan Katchanovski – of the University of Ottawa – has revealed that a paper he produced outlining evidence that the February 2014 massacre of Ukrainian protesters by sniper fire, a defining moment of the Western-backed Maidan coup, was not published by an academic journal for “political reasons.” ‘The evidence is solid:’ In a lengthy Twitter thread posted on January 6, Katchanovski first laid out the circumstances behind the rejection of his article, and the bombshell evidence included in it. The paper was initially accepted with minor revisions after peer review, and the journal's editor offered a glowing appraisal of his work, writing: 💬 “There is no doubt that this paper is exceptional in many ways. It offers evidence against the mainstream narrative of the regime change in Ukraine in 2014… It seems to me that the evidence the study produces in favour of its interpretation on who was behind the massacre of the protesters and the police during the ‘Euromaidan’ mass protests on February 18-20, 2014, in Ukraine, is solid. On this there is also consensus among the two reviewers.” As the editor noted, the massacre was a “politically crucial development,” which led to the “transition of powers in the country” from the freely elected Viktor Yanukovich to the illegitimate and rabidly nationalistic administration of Aleksandr Turchinov, a former security services chief. It was endlessly cited in Western media as a symbol of the brutality of Ukraine’s government and an unprovoked attack on innocent pro-WesternMaidan protesters, who allegedly sought nothing more than democracy and freedom. ■ 6 reasons the neocons in the West wanted this war with Russia (Life Site News)
■ US Openly Salivates Over Ukraine's Vast Untapped Titanium Reserves (01/29/23)
■ The Minsk Agreements Explained (12/09/22)
■ EVIL DEFINED: "Overextending & Unbalancing Russia" (Rand Corporation) (09/16/22)
■ How Obama Started Ukraine’s War (Eric Zuesse) (08/12/22)
■ Both Zelensky and Poroshenko Acknowledged They Came to Power Illegally (08/04/22)
■ WATCH: ‘The War in Ukraine’ (08/04/22)
■ Ukraine: A War Over Oil And Gas (First published on AWIP on 08/18/14) (02/28/22)
■ All-Out War in Ukraine: NATO’s ‘Final Offensive’ (11/21/14)
■ Euromaidan supporters justify Odessa massacre, defend member accused of killing (09/05/14)
■ Watershed press conference by top Novorussian officials (MUST SEE!) (09/01/14)
■ 400 US mercenaries 'deployed on ground' in Ukraine military op (05/12/14)
■ Blackwater Killers in Eastern Ukraine (Stephen Lendman)(05/12/14)
Over 60 scientists call for an end to covid-19 “vaccines” after documenting foreign toxins that damage the blood and impede circulation
Link: https://citizens.news/700782.html
East Palestine train wreck may have created largest dioxin plume in world history
Link: https://citizens.news/700125.html
The situation in East Palestine, Ohio, is much worse than the media is letting on, particularly as it pertains to the widespread release of chemical dioxins. | The 14 some-odd tanker cars carrying vinyl chloride that were intentionally blown up released a massive plume of these deadly chemicals, which were spread far and wide, including up the eastern seaboard through Pennsylvania, New York and beyond. ● Tens of millions of people stand to be affected by this dioxin release, which by and large appears to be the most disastrous dioxin incident to have ever occurred in world history. Water supplies, food crops, city parks, state forests – all of them stand to become toxified with dioxins due to this disaster. 💬 “Burning vinyl is the most serious source of dioxin in the environment – whether from trash incinerators, house fires or chemical spills,” explained Eric Coppolino, writing for Planet Waves FM – Chiron Return. “While vinyl chloride is a precursor chemical to making PVC, any time chlorinated compounds burn there will be dioxins created. And dioxin is a manufacturing byproduct of any manufacturing process involving chlorine, from ‘disinfectants’ to the bleaching of paper. There was plenty of dioxin in those tanker cars before they caught fire.”
Putin must turn ‘360 degrees’ – German FM
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/571714-baerbock-putin-turn-360/
Russia’s former president has ridiculed Annalena Baerbock’s grasp of geometry | Russian President Vladimir Putin must “change by 360 degrees” in order for Ukraine to be safe, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told the Munich Security Conference. In other words, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev pointed out, he must continue doing exactly what he is doing. Appearing alongside American Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba on Saturday, Baerbock was asked whether there is “any chance of Ukraine being safe in the long term” if Putin remains in office. “If he doesn’t change by 360 degrees, no,” the German FM replied.
💬 “It’s hilarious that Europe is run by such ignorant people,” former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wrote on social media. “There is no doubt, connoisseur of geometry, that it will be so,” he mocked. “We are holding our ground.”
Baerbock, Blinken, and Kuleba spoke at a panel entitled ‘Visions for Ukraine,’ in which the three attempted to sketch out an image of what the country might look like post-conflict.
The man behind the curtain: A new report exposes how George Soros’ propaganda machine has corrupted the media
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/571293-man-who-bends-arcs/
The Budapest-born billionaire has constructed an incredible global network of influence | A new report from the US-based Newsbusters has exposed a vast web of media and activist organizations, funded with millions of dollars, annually, by the billionaire George Soros. The outlet bills itself as “an online rapid-response vehicle for documenting, exposing, and neutralizing liberal bias in the media.” ● The extensive global influence of the Hungarian tycoon is well-known, and Soros himself has admitted it on countless occasions – including boasts about his efforts in Ukraine. Soros openly declared his role in promoting the 2014 US-orchestrated Maidan coup in Kiev, stating at the time: 💬 “I set up a foundation in Ukraine before Ukraine became independent of Russia [sic]. The foundation has been functioning ever since. And it played an important part in events now.” In a lengthy interview with the New York Times in October of 2019, Soros explained: “The arc of history doesn’t follow its own course [and] needs to be bent,” and he was “engaged in trying to bend it in the right direction.”
■ India slams 'dangerous' George Soros (RT.com)
Psychological Warfare Casebook Operations
Biden to visit Poland around Ukraine war anniversary
Link: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/10/politics/biden-poland-trip/index.html
President Joe Biden will visit Poland this month to mark the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, returning to the region as the war enters a volatile new phase without a clear path to peace. | The president is planning to visit Poland from February 20-22. The White House said he would meet Polish President Andrzej Duda and other leaders from the region. He’ll deliver remarks ahead of the official anniversary on February 24. “He wants to talk about the importance of the international community’s resolve and unity in supporting Ukraine for now going on a year,” said John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator at the National Security Council.
■ Biden plans a trip to Poland ahead of the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
[What you'll find below, are two items where you either may take note of the evil musings of some cynical Russian commentators, OR on the other hand, let these dark ideas alert us to evil intentions in the American "deep state". You never know which way to interpret this. We just wanted to draw your attention to it. Let's hope nothing serious happens. All life is important, yes, even Sleepy Joe's. His life has a purpose; we're certain of that.]
■ Yuri Baranchik (Юрий Баранчик) | The other day, on February 10, I wrote that Sleepy Joe is flying to Poland for [some reason], and is going to make [an] important statement there on February 21: "Biden's going to Poland at a bad time, somehow I'm worried about him." I continued this theme on February 12: "Biden is clearly not pulling his weight. But you can't leave a very limp [and lame] duck [to itself]. You have to [do it with a big bang]. Only then will the Democrats have an opportunity to bring into play figure X, who is not visible right now, by appointing her actually directly as vice president while Kamala Harris is [acting] head of state. The Americans already pulled a similar stunt in the 1970s. ● I wrote about such a scheme on January 22, 2022: "There was a similar precedent in American history. In 1974, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew, the U.S. Congress, on the recommendation of Richard Nixon, confirmed Gerald Ford as Vice President. Eight months later, Nixon resigned, Ford became president himself, and Congress confirmed him as vice president to Nelson Rockefeller, who at the time was neither a senator, congressman nor governor, heading only two national commissions." ● Yesterday, February 15, the leader of Just Russia, Sergey Mironov, said of this possible development - the assassination of U.S. President Joe Biden during his visit to Poland or possibly in Ukraine: 💬 "Ukraine has already announced, "great events" for February 24 that Russia will remember. No words from an American leader or a UN resolution will achieve such status - it will be forgotten in a couple of days. What Russia needs [?] is a real [sensation] that the world will be discussing months or even years from now. Such a sensation would be the attempt on the life of the US president, which, of course, would be attributed to the Kremlin. ● This was his reaction to media reports that after his visit to Poland Biden may visit Kiev on the anniversary of the start of the special military operation and make some tough statements against Russia there. (Trans.: DeepL.com)
■ REX NEWS AGENCY (ИА REX) | Mironov "allowed" Biden to be assassinated during his visit to Kiev | The assassination of U.S. President Joe Biden during his visit to Ukraine was speculated on by the leader of the SRZP, State Duma deputy Sergei Mironov. ● "Ukraine has already announced, "great events" for February 24 that Russia will remember. No words from an American leader or a UN resolution will be worth such a status - it will be forgotten in a couple of days. What Russia needs is a real scoop that the world will be discussing months or even years from now. Mironov says: "The attempt on the life of the U.S. president, which of course will be attributed to the Kremlin, will be such a sensation. ● This was his reaction to media reports that after his visit to Poland Biden might visit Kiev on the anniversary of the start of a special military operation and make some harsh statements against Russia. ● In favor of his version, the parliamentarian cited the argument that Kiev was ready to provoke a nuclear conflict. 💬 "It is clear that all the world's media will accept the anti-Russian version, and little or no objective investigation is ruled out. Washington will be forced to take the conflict to a new level of escalation. This also benefits the Democrats, who are being dragged to the bottom by the current leader. They would much rather have a dead Biden than a living [one], [an] heroic victim, [rather] than a grandfather with oddities, who will baffle American voters tomorrow," Mironov reasoned. (Translation: DeepL.com)
Security Conference kicking off in Munich, Russia not participating for second year
Link: https://tass.com/world/1577699
The conference will start on Friday with a video address by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky | The 59th forum will bring together several hundreds of politicians from around the world, heads of leading international organizations, representatives of business and scientific circles and experts from 96 countries. Russia has not been participating in the conference at the official level for the second consecutive year. ● The decision not to invite officials from Russia has also been criticized in Germany. Gregor Gysi, the German Left Party’s foreign affairs spokesperson in the Bundestag, has slammed it as a lost opportunity to talk about the possible ceasefire in Ukraine. Organizers have not invited Iran’s leadership this year either, same as the Alternative for Germany party, which critically evaluates the policy of the country’s government, including on Russia.
➡ Sixteen years ago, in 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the Munich Security Conference with a speech devoted to foreign policy that had an international resonance. The speech focused on the vision of Russia’s place and role in the world considering the reality and threats of the time and the unacceptability of unipolar model in the current policy. Putin pointed out then that unilateral, sometimes illegitimate actions had not solved a single problem, often generating new volatile areas though, whereas certain norms of some countries, first of all the US, crossed their borders. He noted that the international law should be universal. The Russian president also stressed the importance of a balance of interests in the security area, adding that the world could only develop on the basis of a multisided model. A whole number of experts share the view that many of Putin’s warnings come true nowadays.
New Corroborating Evidence Emerges Showing US Trace Behind Nord Stream Blasts
US investigative journalist Sy Hersh opened a Pandora’s Box of incriminating evidence that purportedly directly links the Biden administration to September’s sabotage attacks against the Nord Stream gas pipeline network. On Wednesday, Russia called a special Security Council meeting to discuss the new information. | An email forwarded to Sputnik by a US journalist from an individual identifying themselves as a servicemember that took part in last summer’s NATO BALTOPS 22 exercises in waters near the site of the Nord Stream pipeline explosions provides new information corroborating last week's bombshell Substack report on the incident by Seymour Hersh.
➡ According to the email, on June 15, a helicopter delivered a group of conspicuous-looking American divers in civilian clothes to the exercise area. “My first thought was that they looked like a group of terrorists,” the source wrote, pointing to the individuals’ odd haircuts, mustaches and beards, and the absence of any military ID markers. The source in the email took note of the men’s MK29 military-issue rebreather systems, which use an oxygen-helium mixture for deep-sea diving. He also noticed that the men had other high-grade, expensive equipment not in use by ordinary Navy units, and that they brought small boxes with them, contents unknown. The men identified themselves as participants in "de-mining exercises," which were to involve the sailing of a small rubber dinghy to a specified destination, find, and defuse anti-ship mines. However, the divers didn’t seem equipped for this, the source indicated. ● After their conversation with the US commander, the men did not go to the exercise area, but instead “left their dinghy in their rebreathers and disappeared under the water for over six hours. There is no equipment that allows divers to stay underwater for six hours. The latest military equipment [allows] three or four hours maximum,” the source noted in the email. ● Upon their return, the divers were no longer carrying their mystery boxes. They were picked up by a helicopter and flown out of the area, according to the source.
4,000 Islamic State fighters gathered near Afghanistan border with Tajikistan says Kremlin officer
Some 4,000 Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) fighters are now stationed near Afghanistan’s border with Tajikistan, according to a Russian colonel-general. | The warning served by Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), was reported by Afghanistan’s The Khaam Press News Agency. ● Sidorov was cited as saying that the militant group poses threats to the security of Central and South Asia. Both Russian and Iranian officials have lately stepped up briefings to media that they believe the US is in favour of breeding instability in Afghanistan, a backyard country to both Russia and Iran. Washington denies having any such strategy. Should Russia face a challenge to regional security to its south from Islamic militant infiltration, it could conceivably tie up military resources that could otherwise be called up for the war in Ukraine. The CSTO is supposed to provide security for Russia, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Armenia.
➡ In a February 15 article published by Voice of America (VoA), the Taliban regime’s chief diplomat Amir Khan Muttaqi was reported as refuting Sidorov’s claims as baseless, saying: “How come thousands of such people are concentrated in one place and still no one can see them or is aware of them?” [When the U.S. government (VoA) issues a denial, you know it must be true.]
Faith, Family And Freedom Now Is "Dangerous & Un-American"???
Link: https://t.me/EvPanina/8468
Extremist group Family Heritage Alliance said this morning that the safest place for kids are in families that have a married mom and dad. What a dangerous and un-American belief.
— Representative Erin Healy (@RepErinHealy) February 13, 2023
■ South Dakota Democrat Slams Conservative Group’s Promotion of Nuclear Family (Breitbart)
Elena Panina (Елена Панина) | Believing that the safest place for children is in their families, with a married mom and dad, is "dangerous and un-American," South Dakota House member Erin Healey said in a tweet. | That's how she commented on the position of "extremists" from the Christian Family Heritage Alliance. The Alliance has indeed lost its way: right on its own website it dares to call faith, family and freedom the foundation of the nation. Let us agree with Ms. Healy. The traditional family is no longer American at all. It is extremely dangerous for her native Democratic Party. And what's terrible for her at all, it's very, very Russian!
Australian mom denied heart transplant due to her COVID-19 vaccination status
A mother has been denied the opportunity to receive a heart transplant because she is not vaccinated for COVID-19, despite having a medical exemption. | Vicki Derderian, from Melbourne, relies on a ventricular assist device to keep her heart functioning after it failed in 2020, and is desperate for a transplant. She did not receive the vaccine because she is concerned that doing so could increase her risk of heart conditions such as myocarditis or pericarditis which, although rare, can be serious. Ms. Derderian, a mother of two, expressed her frustration with the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services for their stance, which she characterized as “no jab, no heart.”
Caitlin Jonstone: Odds & Ends
You Have To Be Trusted By The People That You Lie To: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix | The widespread refusal to accept that the US government bombed the Nord Stream pipelines is based solely on the faith-based belief that the US government would never do something so evil, despite its having done many things that are far more evil than this right out in the open. ● "Okay sure they've been spending the last few years helping Saudi Arabia create mountains of child corpses in Yemen, but blowing up a pipeline? That would be a step too far!" ● So much government nefariousness hides behind the completely unevidenced assumption "Oh, our leaders would never do anything THAT bad!" It's a belief that is based on literally nothing. It's believed because it is comfortable.
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