Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 30 2022 08:02am)
Yeah, right, after decades of being in operation, these pipelines all fail right as tensions are running high between Russia and the country supplied by the respective pipeline - and this pattern of "conveniently timed 'random' material failures" repeats itself time and time again throughout the decades. :rolleyes:
That the pipeline in 2009 was repaired quickly doesn't disprove the accusation against Russia btw, that's typical "showing the instruments" behavior.
If the turkmens didn't think it was sabotage why should we now? If it was sabotage, why bother slightly damaging a pipeline in a way that gets fixed within a few days? Contrast that with Nord Stream II being apparently irrecoverable.
I think this is a clear case of Hanlon's Razor. 50 year old soviet infrastructure failing in a clear example of two sides of a pipeline failing to communicate with each other as they flipped their levers. One side kept the pressure input at full, the other reduced their draw, it burst, not a big mystery. We don't need to start seeing Russian saboteurs hiding behind every rock and spelled out in our alphabet soup