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According to the article the attack came from an Iranian IP address. Well ...

Suppose it wasn't a false flag operation. Why would Iran threaten the EU when the EU was skeptical about the war early this year and suffers from it due to lack of Qatari LNG?

The logical step would be to do diplomatic outreach to the EU.

Now the EU has a casus belli (more like supporting the war rather than participating). It all sounds like the EU is selling the war to its population, but maybe Iran is really that stupid.

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Russia has demonstrated that they can conduct so-called "hybrid warfare" as long as it doesn't lead to serious injury or death and the response will be meager. But it still creates pain for those targeted nations.

Iran could be seeing that this approach, rather than more blatant attacks, is a useful way to create problems for the US's allies with a lower risk of elevating those US allies to direct enemies. The intention would be to get the US allies to put pressure on the US (in particular) to back out of the US/Israel war on Iran.

> Russia has demonstrated that they can conduct so-called "hybrid warfare" as long as it doesn't lead to serious injury or death and the response will be meager

At a certain point, it stops being "hybrid warfare" and starts being "obnoxious prank".

Russia's deployed (small amounts of) WMDs offensively and has blown up/set fire to some military infrastructure on NATO soil. I'd call these things "hybrid warfare".

Making a grocery store file a claim with their insurance for unrefrigerated food is more along the lines of "dick move".

They're not that stupid, and it's another lie.

We cannot rule out the fanatics running the US had this done to get the EU into the war. More to come, I'm sure.

Yeah, that's what we do to draw people into wars: we set their supermarket freezers to defrost and make the stocking crew stay half-a-shift longer. Then we vote the guy who dragged our own country into the war into lame duck status.

You've traced the very substance and nature of our ridiculously circuitous plan to get the EU to attack Iran. Can we get your thoughts on the Zapruder film while you're here? Maybe you can bring some fresh perspective to that.

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