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My own, completely unfounded, conspiracy theory is that the assassination of Charlie Kirk was to distract the US from yesterday’s Russian drone attack on a NATO ally.
Yeah sure. Not from the USA openly supporting Israel in attacking yet another country in support of their Holocaust. It has to be to distract from drones flying over Poland.
Nothing has enabled the right wing to do whatever they like more than the liberal hyper-fixation on Russia.
Conspiracy theories don’t necessarily need to make logical sense, they just need to feel true.
Yes, and to a liberal it will always "feel" true if it some how ties everything back to Russia.
You are on .ml you braindead chud
The Russian drones were cardboard decoy drones. The propaganda must go real hard if you think that's starting ww3.
I haven’t seen the news reporting that. Is that reporting in another language or something?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/ukraine-war-briefing-cheap-shahed-like-gerbera-drones-used-in-poland-violation
So, not cardboard and not “decoys”. Just cheap stuff because RU is broke.
No literal cardboard and foam.
I should have been more clear that I object to these being called “decoys” because they are clearly functioning drones, just made out of junk.
All except possibly one of them had no explosives on board.
Which means they are capable of carrying explosives and that couldn’t have been known if they were or weren’t before being shot down. It’s possible I don’t know the technical definition of “decoy” but that sure doesn’t fit the description to me from a layman’s understanding.
Decoy means they are designed to waste Ukrainian anti air rockets and munitions by having them believe they are explosive drones. It's literally what a decoy drone is. That is why they are shaped similar to the Shahed so people cannot tell the difference from afar.
Perhaps I’m conflating “decoy” and “dummy”. But if one of the drones had real, actual explosives in it I don’t see how it’s a waste of resources to defend yourself from them.
Or am I misunderstanding what you mean when you say there were explosives found. Is the point that these drones, even if carrying explosives, we’re not actually capable of detonation?
I read rumors one single drone allegedly held a small amount of explosives (like 4pounds/2kg). I'm not sure if this was actually confirmed.
Actual Shaheds can carry 100pounds/50kg of explosives.
These Gerbera drones are not a more cost effective way of delivering explosives beacuse they also require a motor and other hardware. They are meant to deplete air defenses.
Cardboard managed to do this to a house, huh?
Even Belarus has claimed that these drones were bound for Ukraine, but apparently had their radar navigation jammed.
Look around you, just between Russian and Israeli actions alone, we are quickly descending into a global conflict already.
My entire conspiracy theory is that Charlie Kirk was shot in order to focus US attention fixed on internal issues, in order for their global soft power to continue to crumble while the rest of the world descends into madness.
It’s in the same vein as the DNC emails leaking straight after Trump’s “Grab them by the pussy” tape was released, completely taking over the news cycle.
If I had a nickel every time something politically expedient happened to derail the press, I’d have two nickels - which isn’t much, but it’s strange that it’s happened twice to the same guy.