here's a good rule of thumb: if a tweet has more than 280 characters, it's false

Obviously false, come on

The grownup version of “my uncle who works at Nintendo”

My uncle works in Asia (NOT RUSSIA-CHINA) and confirmed this is true, actually.

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But no you should totally trust completely insane news from a pepe Twitter account

PS Pepe sent a silly letter. We shall neither print it, nor reply.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

I'm no military expert but I reckon if an F-35 loaded with a nuclear warhead was shot down we likely would have heard about it

This would quite possibly be the biggest diplomatic incident in history if this happened, and the idea that all parties involved would just collaborate to hide it from the public is full on conspiracy theory nonsense. If Israel attempted to nuke Iran, Iran wouldn't be behaving passively and cautiously like they've been doing with this drone strike. If Russia shot it down, there's no way in hell the west would just quietly let it go under the radar.

And there's the obvious fact that others have pointed out that F-35s are fighters not bombers and so aren't capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. And the even more obvious fact that Israel has missiles, which have been the preferred way to launch nukes since the 60s. This whole thing isn't even "funny" absurd, it's "an insult to people's intelligence" levels of absurd.

Pepe Escobar is a weirdo. Everything he says I take with a grain of salt.

I don't read fanfiction.

This whole thing feels like some kind of cosmic joke.

But yeah, thankfully I doubt this is true

It was discussed in the News mega, and broadly dismissed.

sors or didn't happen