Posted on 10/02/2022 11:47:20 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
“in which the US representative did not confirm nor deny it and didn’t answer the question, but instead took an offensive posture”
Did NOT deny it.
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And neither did Biden’s teleprompter if you listen carefully to the WEASEL WORDS coming out of Biden’s mouth. The incurious mainstream media avoids asking the direct question “Did the U.S. have ANY INVOLVEMENT IN THIS CRIMINAL ACT and holding Biden to give an DEFINITIVE yes or no answer. The European peasants need to know the character of our current American government,
This info goes with the images above.
For a “very high value target” (like a pipeline) the Mark 18 could be packed with demo and parked next to the pipeline.
Most units like these are modular, so it’s not a big deal to add a meter or so containing an explosive stage in the middle.
If the POTUS ordered the USN to blow up the NS1 & 2, IMHO, this is how it could have been done.
If this happened, quite a few USN personnel know about it. I’d love to read their NDAs. They will probably all be transferred to separate “Ice Station Zebras” where they will not be available for testimony.
Much more info about the Mark 18 “Kingfish” UUV at the link.
I haven’t seen a single NATO country accuse the US of this.
Everyone is being mostly silent about any blame except for the usual Russian blame. The evidence for an US strike is huge and no one is talking about it.
I believe this is the biggest story on the planet right now, and I don’t see Denmark or Sweden protecting the site or doing any investigation of the site.
This illegal Junta running the White House has caused untold misery for people worldwide. Biden recklessness and its "global warming" fantasy have unleashed a stack of dominoes destroying wealth, raising energy prices, endangering crops, destroying heating fuel stocks, sent food prices soaring. This same Junta has morphed our legal institutions into its own Stasi Gestapo to quell dissent.
And it all started with a stolen election.
The Mark 18 “Kingnfish” UUV photo above came from the embedded video at this link.
“BALTOPS 50 Site For Experimental Mine Hunting Equipment”
12 June 2021
“PUTLOS, Germany - Exercise Baltic Operations (BALTOPS), the premier maritime-focused exercise in the Baltic region, has been underway since June 6, 2021.
“For the first time this annual exercise, explosive ordnance and mine countermeasure units from the Navy and the Marine Corps integrated into a NATO multi-national exercise using cutting- edge technology and experimental equipment to increase the effectiveness of mine countermeasure.”
[I can’t wait to see the results of the “investigation” of the NS1 & 2 pipeline sabotage operations. IMHO, the same folks who were tasked to perform the sabotage will be tasked with the investigation. As in: Let the FBI investigate Waco.
Read the info at the link and watch the embedded video. The new term for an untethered ROV is UUV, Underwater Unmanned Vehicle. Instead of finding war mines, they can find a well-charted pipeline a lot easier, and be modified to blow it up. Just spitballing, but I believe these are the tracks to investigate.]
BOL! While I was posting 3 letters/FYI!
You covered the waterfront and under it.
Point 6 or so .. biden said he was going to do it .., and like BO he never tells the truth ... unless it llips out accidently
The western Baltic is a NATO aquarium. USN warships and helos [Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group] spent all summer conducting underwater UUV / ROV drone “mine detection and demolition” drills. You have seen all the news stories. Mines are destroyed by explosives after being located by a UUV. A charted pipeline is 100X easier of a target.
If anybody else tried to explode 4 simultaneous pipeline bombs, in pairs, kilometers apart, (NS1 and NS2), NATO and the USN would know ALL about it.
A medium-size fish cannot swim in and out of the Baltic (50' controlling depth) without being recorded by dozens of sensors.
Russia has bare transit rights [during peacetime] from Kaliningrad and St. Pete, but that is it. Every Russian ship going in and out of the Baltic is virtually escorted front and rear. The Western Baltic is a small lake surrounded by NATO nations, plus NATO-cooperating Sweden and Finland.
The USN did it. Motive (POTUS orders), ability, opportunity, threats made in advance.
I take no joy in saying that, as a long-ago frogman who locked in and out of submerged nuclear submarines, rode in mini-subs (SDVS), trained with every conceivable kind of underwater demolition, and dived with air bottles, mixed gas, and pure oxygen (for no bubbles). IOW, I know whereof I speak.
To believe otherwise than the USN did this is like believing the Russians snuck up the Thames River in mini mystery subs to blow up 4 key British infrastructure sites, at the same time, kilometers apart, and got away undetected.
(I will allow that the USN may have “sheep-dipped” some Poles in on the operation, to keep the Polish govt quiet forever, but in my professional frogman opinion, it was a USN operation.)
Link takes you to the Seapower article.
Seapower is the official publication of the U.S. Navy League.
“BALTOPS 22: A Perfect Opportunity for Research and Testing New Technology”
BALTIC SEA — A significant focus of BALTOPS every year is the demonstration of NATO mine hunting capabilities, and this year the U.S. Navy continues to use the exercise as an opportunity to test emerging technology, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa Public Affairs said June 14.
In support of BALTOPS, U.S. Navy 6th Fleet partnered with U.S. Navy research and warfare centers to bring the latest advancements in unmanned underwater vehicle mine hunting technology to the Baltic Sea to demonstrate the vehicle’s effectiveness in operational scenarios.
Experimentation was conducted off the coast of Bornholm, Denmark, with participants from Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, and Mine Warfare Readiness and Effectiveness Measuring all under the direction of U.S. 6th Fleet Task Force 68.
BALTOPS is an ideal location for conducting mine hunting experimentation due to the region’s unique environmental conductions such as low salinity and varying bottom types. It is also critical to evaluate emerging mine hunting UUV technology in the Baltic due to its applicability with allied and partner nations. This year experimentation was focused on UUV navigation, teaming operations, and improvements in acoustic communications all while collecting critical environmental data sets to advance the automatic target recognition algorithms for mine detection.
“In prior BALTOPS we demonstrated advanced capabilities to detect, reacquire and collect images of mine contacts, and transfer those images in near real-time to operators through the use of a specialized Office of Naval Research UUV,” said Anthony Constable, Office of Naval Research science advisor to U.S. 6th Fleet. “This year, through the work of NIWC Pacific and NUWC Newport, we are showing that this capability can be integrated into programs of record by executing complex multi-vehicle UUV missions with modified U.S. Navy fleet assets.”
[more at link]
Method. Covert high tech submersibles. Which Russia has many. Pre-planted charges. Timed or or remote detonation.
Motive. Neither line was producing revenue: one was shut for needed repairs, the other was never used. Waste of resources better shipped to China through the Siberian pipeline or to India.
Opportunity. Both lines are in Russia’s back yard, just a ways from Russia’s largest Naval base.
Most to gain: Russia. Propaganda value, division of Western powers to finger pointing, distraction from Ukraine war.
US: because a senile dementia-riddled old man mumbled something that was semi-coherent, everyone who hates the US wants to believe this time he was correct and tries to convince others to look away from Russia.
Method.
+Motive.
+Opportunity.
Lots of thing slip out of its mouth accidentally like: its mention of flies, or calling on a dead person, to name a few.
So this time it has to be true, right? Because it fits the pro-Russian, anti-American meme?
None that trumps Russia with its nearby naval base.
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