The ol’ suspicious man in a fake moustache-nose-glasses-snorkel combo—is he a spy or on his way to a party?

They went from blaming Putin for destroying his own pipeline, to blaming Ukranians- who by that logic may as well have sailed across the Black Sea, Med, and North Sea to probably plant the bombs from a rubber dinghy- to now once again pretending no one could know who did it (or who promised to do it, who had the means and motive to do it, was in the vicinity for naval exercises, was exposed by credible sources with receipts as to exactly how they did it, etc)…

I suppose if Europe and the west has been a plague upon the rest of humanity for the past 500 years, it is only right that they should be unable to change their ways even as they spiral to the grave. There’s certainly something very satisfying and undignified about all this. (obviously I’d prefer things to get better, but I’ll take what I get)