Quote (kusotarre1 @ 27 Sep 2022 07:20)
Early Monday morning, Nordstream 2 was punctured massively in the Baltic Sea. Hours later, Nordstream 1 was also punctured under the Baltic Sea. One could maybe be a natural thing, though unlikely with NS2 being so new. Both being natural is absurd.
Very clearly done to ensure that no political upheaval in Europe can result in a dropping of sanctions and a resumption of gas from Russia.
This happens after stories in the past few days of European industries moving to America due to high energy prices and a falling value of the Euro compared to the USD.
America is cannibalizing Europe. Nuland's epithet manifesting.
There's still massive land-based pipelines, so the punctures of the Nord Stream pipelines would not stop Europe and Russia from resuming most of their gas trading if both sides want to. Therefore, your explanation that the US, or "warmongers" in the EU, are behind this - as some sort of preemptive sabotage of the gas infrastructure - makes no real sense. There's so much pipeline capacity sitting idle at the moment that the damage to Nord Stream doesn't make a practical difference.
This is nonetheless an interesting incident. My hypothesis would be that it's one of two things:
1.: Russia tried to empty the gas that was still left inside the actual pipelines, perhaps in preparation for the pipes being idle for a long time - and in the process, the pipelines were inadvertently damaged.
2.: Russia wants to demonstrate that gas pipelines at the ground of the Baltic Sea are vulnerable - a thinly veiled threat that they could attack the pipelines connecting Norway to continental Europe, and how fucked Europe would be if that "happened" in the deep of winter.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Sep 27 2022 12:06am