Oddbean

i think they're just buying themselves time to decide how they want to spin it. because if you look back at any historical event whether it is Holocaust or 9/11 or October 7 eventually the narrative is adopted that is nothing like what actually happened. and the story changes rapidly at first until eventually everybody settles on some lie that becomes accepted as the truth. like when the 1st hospital in the current phase of Gaza genocide was bombed killing 500 people, mostly women and children, Israel first said "there was Hamas base under that hospital" but there was immediate backlash from International Community then Israel said "akshully we didn't bomb them, they bombed themselves" and that became accepted as the truth, and then after everybody calmed down Israel started to slowly ramp up bombing Hospitals again ... or on 9/11 when they first reported the collapse of Building 7 before it happened on live TV and then eventually they decided that building 7 never existed in the first place and it was never mentioned in the official 9/11 commission report these first reports that come out before the media decides on what the narrative should be always come back to bite them in the ass because they always end up changing the story later so they are getting smarter now and simply keep their mouth shut until they get the official word on what the story is supposed to be ...