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Am I missing something? Why is everyone so sure that it is Russia? Are they the only ones with access to computers beside US?

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Because Russia has somewhat of an oil monopoly in Europe and the US doesn't like that. We've been being fed Russia war propaganda for at least a decade. If it even feels like a "Russia kind of thing" to the general public that is just the result of intentional conditioning by warmongers.

It could have been literally any major world power, including our allies. No evidence has been presented whatsoever as to who the culprit is.

Hell, it could be a different part of the USA government, like those "sonic embassy attacks" were.

What? are you implying that the US government perpetrated attacks on US gov personnel?

the amount of insane unfounded crap posted in HN comments is growing and i'm not sure if there is a fix.

BTW recent articles say it's microwaves

Yes, one must see the most recent coverage to know the current story. ISTR someone had retired from CIA and was shopping a memoir around; apparently the only exploit he could mention on the record was that one time he got sick. Just his bad luck that in late 2020 we're mostly thinking about a different illness.

The only common element among USA facilities in Havana, Guangzhou, and Tashkent is the USA facilities themselves. Much like the situation described in TFA, those facilities were built by the most corrupt bidders. It will surprise no one when it is revealed that some corner was cut, and American personnel were exposed to harmful amounts of some ghastly chemicals, radiations, etc.

It is literally a conspiracy theory to reject this simplest possible explanation in favor of some outlandish three-way joint venture among the Cubans, the Chinese, and the Uzbeks, three nations not known for ever having done anything together.

Or that foreign agents can roam basically freely in those (and basically all) countries?

I'm totally on board with accident/malpractice from shitty construction.

But implying or outright saying the CIA used a weapon on their own employees is crazy - without actual proof - especially to write out on HN.

Sure as pointed out below the US has done - and probably is - doing stupid things. But I really don't buy testing a WEAPON without consent

I don't know about jessaustin's claims, but it definitely isn't beyond a US government agency to attack its own personnel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Camarena

You pretty much glossed over the whole Crimea thing in Europe. When has the US or the EU annexed part of a country in recent years?

We don't annex. We just keep murdering your ruler until you find one that does what we say. We came, we saw, he died.

Because it definitely couldn’t be China or any other country.

Couldn't be china, they can't access the outside world ;)

Psychological conditioning is my theory. If you think about it, has this not been a rather popular news item for many years? If people should not get their perception of world affairs from the news, then from where should they get it?

Don't you know? Liberals automatically blame Russia. Conservatives automatically blame China. Me, I Blame Canada. Damn you, Gordon Lightfoot!

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