Wow, I totally believe that some random Ukrainians rented a small sailboat, filled it with hundreds of pounds of explosives and high tech diving gear, and then managed to plant the explosives hundreds of feet below the surface on the middle of a busy shipping lane. That's definitely what happened.
This is such a bad cover story that the reporters can't even prevent themselves from questioning it. Didn't stop the NYT from running a big headline tho.
What's even the point of this bullshit, at least the previous story of "Russia did it" was technically feasible.
Seems kinda like a means of slowly getting everyone to accept the inevitable (the the US did it).
Similar to how years after the invasion of Iraq, everyone was in agreement that "well of course there were no WMDs"
Slowly slide the west into “hmm maybe Ukraine bad” mindset in order to withdraw support without losing face
Blowback season 2
Nah, America will pivot to "Well, we need to fund them anyway".
I think it's a power move to demonstrate the complete futility of truth.