These idiots. Could have gone in with a sub and done this. Detectable, but harder to do so in the public domain like this.
It was in international waters, otherwise it would have been sunk.
Yeah, I’m guess they probably mined it months before and told Putin that they’d blow it if he annexed Donbass. Putin did, and they immediately blew the two lines.
I don’t have Twitter , so I can’t vet this guy or this info,,,
,, but if the images are valid,,,,crap.
I read that the area where it was done was not a place a sub could reach.
I suspect we will see in the coming days what really went on, and the Putinists--who have embraced every conspiracy theory, no matter how fringe from Russia--will as usual have egg on their face.
Years ago I read Blind Mans Bluff: The Untold Story of Cold War Submarine Espionage by Christopher Drew. It was incredible learning about our undersea capabilities. I'm sure the book only exposed a small fraction of what we are capable of doing undersea and that capability has grown immensely. I've no doubt the USA could have done that deed in total stealth. If the Danes detected the USA in that area, then it was because the USA wanted to be seen.
But I really doubt the USA did it.