Thing is the credibility of US pronouncements from any of its officials is pretty slim if that.
Speaking about credibility a month ago I wrote a column [3] about investigative reporter Seymour Hersh's charge it was the US that sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines 1 and 2 last September. Hersh's credibility is beyond reproach. Yet US officials dubbed Hersh's charge as "Utterly false".
Who has the credibility here, Hersh or US officials?
That's really a no brainer. Yet Hersh's story was completely ignored in the US MSM. Why?
I guess it didn't fit the "official" narrative the US wouldn't resort to doing such a thing. Please.
What's astonishing it seems many (most?)people in the US still tune in to the MSM. So unless people turned to the alternative media they never saw Hersh's story.
That's a sad commentary the so called free press here in the US would completely ignore someone with Hersh's credibility but give the people dissembling nonsense from a US official like Austin who has shown he has no credibility.
[1] Pentagon chief downgrades importance of besieged Donbass city", RT, March 6, 2023
[2] US suspects cranes of spying for China", RT, The Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2023
[3] "Source claims US sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea last September", OPEDNEWS, February 8, 2023
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