It Is Only A "Conspiracy Theory" When It Accuses The United States Government by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-10-05 at 03:27:15 )

It Is Only A "Conspiracy Theory" When It Accuses The United States Government by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The western political-media class has been dismissing as "conspiracy theories" all claims that the United States is likely responsible for last months sabotage of the Nord Stream 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 United Nations Security Council meeting on Friday, United States envoy Richard Mills repeatedly accused Russia of promoting "conspiracy theories" in its Nord Stream accusations against the United States, saying that "our Russian colleagues have decided to instrumentalize the Security Council meeting to spread conspiracy theories and disinformation."

"It is important that we use this meeting not to foster conspiracy theories, but to focus our attention on Russias 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."

Mr. 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," Mr. Mills says. "In the context of Russias aggression against Ukraine, we have seen numerous Russian attacks damaging civilian infrastructure. We witnessed Russia recklessly seize control of Europes 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," Mr. Mills concludes.

The sabotage of gas pipelines were a "warning shot" from President Putin to the West, and should brace for more subterfuge, Russia experts warn-
Military and Defense Insider (MilDefInsider) October 3, 2022

Business Insider has a new article out titled "The sabotage of gas pipelines were a "warning shot" from President 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 US lawmakers and lying about it during the Senates investigation into CIA torture practices.

-US intelligence veteran Andrea Kendall-Taylor, now a Senior Fellow at the warmongering think tank 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.

That is it; that is 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 United States for burst pipeline," which was so frantic to spin accusations of United States Nord Stream sabotage as a crazy conspiracy theory that it framed it as something only QAnon cultists believe.

"The suggestion that the United States caused the damage was circulating on online forums popular with American conservatives and followers of QAnon, a conspiracy theory movement which asserts that Donald Trump is fighting a battle against a Satanic child-trafficking sect that controls world events," AP wrote.

Still laughing at how frantically over the top AP went with its "blaming the United States for sabotaging Russian pipelines is a baseless conspiracy theory" article.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) October 1, 2022

Over and over again we see the pejorative "conspiracy theory" applied to accusations against one nation but not the other, despite the fact that it is the exact same accusation.

They are both conspiracy theories per definition: they are 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 is a link to another Business Insider article applying the "conspiracy theory" label to accusations of United States Nord Stream sabotage.

Here is one from The Independent doing the same.

Here is one from The Washington Post.

Here is one from Newsweek.

Here is one from Vox.

Here is one from The Atlantic Council think tank.

Here is one from the Brookings Institution think tank.

Here is one from Media Matters for America, founded by the Center for American Progress think tank.

Do you get the message???

Are you receiving the messaging loud and clear??

Accuse the United States of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines and it is called a conspiracy theory. Accuse Russia of doing the exact same thing and it is 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 would not expect them to be in a contest in which one party had their own energy infrastructure sabotaged.

According to SecBlinken, the Nord Stream pipeline bombing "offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come." Too bad that this tremendous opportunity for DC bureaucrats will come at the expense of everyone else, especially this coming winter.-Aaron Maté (aaronjmate) October 1, 2022

For example, there is the fact that Secretary of State Antony Blinken explicitly said that the sabotage of pipelines delivering Russian gas to Germany offers a "tremendous opportunity" to end Europes dependency on Russian energy.

There is also the fact that a 2019 Pentagon-commissioned study by the RAND Corporation on how to overextend and weaken Russia explicitly stated that the United States would benefit from stopping Nord Stream 2.

There is also the fact that both President Biden and his Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland explicitly said that Nord Stream 2 would be brought to an end if Russia invades Ukraine, the fact that the United States sanctioned those who built Nord Stream 2, the fact that former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice is on record saying the United States 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 United States-led sanctions on Russia and a reopening of Nord Stream gas, the fact that United States 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 United States military helicopters were reportedly recorded traveling between the blast points and along the Nord Stream 2 pipeline shortly before the explosions, and the fact that the CIA has a known history of blowing up Russian gas pipelines.

But sure, if you think the United States could have any responsibility for this attack at all, you are a crazy conspiracy theorist and no different from QAnoners who think pedophile Satan worshippers rule the world.

Okay, empire. Message received. Does make me wonder about some of those other "conspiracy theories" you have told us to ignore, though.

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