o be against all caps but now that I realize it's only the people who use all caps are the drunks, that actually is helpful because you could just, oh all caps, I'll skip that one.

All right so there's a Wall Street Journal story. The big story today I guess. Wall Street Journal is breaking this story that the Nord Stream pipeline was not blown up by the United States. It was not blown up by Ukraine, the government. So here's the story that I don't believe one bit of it. It might be true but there's nothing credible about this story whatsoever. Right, so here's the new story that the people who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline were Ukrainians but they were private Ukrainians operating without the government's approval. Now the story goes that they did tell Zelensky they planned to do it and that when the CIA got wind of it the CIA said no no don't do that and told Zelensky no no no don't blow up that pipeline. And then Zelensky said no no no you guys don't blow up that pipeline. So that means that the CIA was innocent because they said don't do it. That means Zelensky was eventually innocent because he told the plotters to not do it. But then those plotters, oh those dirty plotters, they did it anyway. So they rented their own little yacht and they got their little team together with professional private divers and they went down there and they blew up that pipeline.

How many people believe that's true? Does anybody believe that's true? To me it seems so ridiculously obviously not true that I just laugh at it. I mean I don't think any of that's true. Could it be true? Sure I suppose. You know one of the ways that you can tell truth from fake news is if fake news is perfect. If you're going to make up a fake story you make sure it all hangs together, it all makes sense. The real world is so weird that you can't even believe it's true. If something is coming from real world observation it always has, well often if it's anything complicated it has the quality of really somebody would act that way, you know somebody actually made that mistake, somebody's that incompetent. So that's what real stories sound like. So there is a little bit of real story about this and that it's so messy and there's so much badness in it but it's a little bit too on the nose. You know what I mean?

What is it that our CIA would want the world or Russia to believe? What would be the most on-the-nose thing that the CIA would want you to believe? That it wasn't the CIA first of all but miraculously and unbelievably it wasn't Ukraine's government. Hey look at that it wasn't us and it wasn't even the Ukraine government. Isn't that convenient? And what about the timing of learning this, huh? It's right when everybody observing this is pretty sure that both sides are getting closer to negotiating an end to it. You know it would be hard to make the negotiations work if you were planning to negotiate an end to the Ukraine conflict. What would make it really hard is if Putin believed that you'd blown up his pipeline because he might say to you yes I will be willing to negotiate and end this war but you're going to have to pay for the pipeline. Would that be an unreasonable request if he said yes we will wind down the war, the only thing I ask is you got to pay for the pipeline and it's ten billion? I don't know. This looks a little too perfect because if it wasn't the government of Ukraine that did it and it wasn't the CIA, who are you going to bill? You going to bill the six people on the boat? They don't have ten billion. So to me it looks like a preparation for negotiation. I would imagine that the Democrats would love to wind down the Ukraine war and take that as a win if they could spin it that way as a win befor