Thread by @Erkperk

1/ Sitting on a bus thinking.

What if Seymour Hersh and those of us who take him seriously on #NordstreamSabotage all suckers?

Who’s screwing us, why, how and what’s their endgame?

2/ I dismiss the notion that Sy would just sit there in his big armchair and make it all up. No way he’d pull such a giant prank on those who admire him. And he isn’t mad either.

3/ so who screws him?

4/ Some commentators describe Hersh as a rambling incoherent senile constantly changing his story while demonstrating total ignorance of basic facts. I’ve noticed that this view of Hersh strongly correlates with suggestions it’s Russia at work.

5/ Russia , the thinking goes, blew up the pipeline in a stealthy ops under NATO’s nose, while and in an even shrewder move, planted a story in Sy’s mind that confirmed all his biases about Norway, Nuland, Biden CIA so he thought 100% it was the truth.

6/ a further look into this school of thought reveals another Russian signature. While performing these hyper intelligent stealthy ops, their incompetence and museum grade WW2 weaponry doom them to lose the war.

7/ only Russia has this duality, and when using their stealthy aspect they never fail. They are obviously 100% certain of success channeling disinformation through Hersh, since failure would ridicule their entire base of assets in the west.

8/ for those of us with a flawed self image of being independent thinkers, the two aspects of Russia don’t add up and that’s exactly why we fall for the deception. Perhaps, you never know when you’re inside a bubble.

9/ IF Russia actually DID possess the skills to pull off this combined psychological/kinetic operation to successfully blame USA and win Germany’s hearts, I admit it would be rational to do it. I just don’t think that highly of them.

10/ So what if it wasn’t Russia who blew up their own pipeline, but Ukrainians, Poles or some other group blew it up to hurt Russia and to please USA by giving them deniability? What would be the point of deceiving Hersh in such a scenario?

11/ Maybe Hersh sniffed a lie from US officials and started to investigate, so CIA designed another lie to match Hersh’s confirmation bias and divert him from the truth? Not unthinkable.

12/ CIA superstar disinformation operators would engineer a story humiliating the Biden admin so the same admin could protect their proxy and achieve deniability, counting on OSINT to show Hersh was wrong.

13/ Maybe I just underestimate the US intelligence services the same way I underestimate the Russians. But in any case, if they have such intelligence, can we agree they could both use it better? /end