1) An “Unthinkable” Claim
When I surveyed people about Matt Taibbi’s Nord Stream pipeline bombing article, skeptics found Taibbi’s account of US threats against the pipeline “unthinkable.”
To maintain faith in the official narrative, those who reflexively disbelieved Taibbi and Orf had to implicitly dismiss Orf’s video clips and Taibbi’s quotations as potentially out-of-context or incredible.
2) Enhancing the Evidence
In response to Taibbi’s skeptics, I created an enhanced version of Taibbi’s Nord Stream article using my CiteIt App. The App looks up and displays the context of quotations found in linked web pages and YouTube transcripts, making it well-suited for articles containing many web quotes or video-recorded interactions.
For example, On January 17 prior to the September 2022 bombing, former US Ambassador to Ukraine John E. Herbst criticized Jake Sullivan as “weak” for not threatening Germany and Russia in aggressive enough terms by definitively vowing to destroy Nord Stream 2.
3) Is This Version More Persuasive?
I encourage US and German readers to consider whether the following enhanced Nord Stream citations change your mind about the plausibility of the official US narrative and the claim that the US had no motive for attacking Nord Stream.
Read Enhanced Nord Stream Article
About CiteIt
My CiteIt App is designed to build trust and understanding. It is especially valuable to authors who want to challenge partisan thought or expand the Overton Window. Such writers face accusations of “misinformation” from gatekeepers, group think, or skepticism that their quotes might be taken out of context.
If you’re a Substack author interested in using this type of contextual citation in your own writing, I’d like to incorporate your feedback into the App before I pitch it to Substack as a new feature for all authors. Please contact me if you want a demo of how the App enables writers to easily create such contextual citations.