[pierrem15]

Original article auf Deutsch. The comments are interesting: many are blaming the US for sabotaging the pipeline. Meanwhile, if you check Twitter #Kaliningrad, ASW choppers from the USS Kearsarge (in the Baltic) and some USAF choppers have been off the coast of Kaliningrad, along with a surge of circling NATO intelligence aircraft.

[clearcarbon]

"Nord Stream 2 pipeline apparently partially destroyed"

I assume that means there will be a fairly reliable supply of gas to whatever customers have been able to buy it from Russia.

[familyop]

Looks like Germany will be inhibited about depending so much on the Russians or the Swiss in the future.

[Kazan]

What are going to do, Germany, when Russian gas runs out on you?

[353FMG]

If it is a pipeline rupture, the escaping gas will give the obvious position of the break. Then again hydraulic pressure may exceed gas pressure at break point. Should there be loss of weight coat, expect the line to rise to surface. Hell, I spent hours in a three-man submarine chasing pipelines in the Persian Gulf. Pipe break can easily be determined.

[Drew68]

The comments are interesting: many are blaming the US for sabotaging the pipeline.

Could be.

Germany is on track to be burning their dead in order to stay warm this winter. There's a lot of rumbling that Germany may buckle and lift sanctions against Russia to get the gas turned back on.

If Germany lifts sanctions, the NATO alliance in Ukraine will crumble.

The U.S. might have wanted to ensure that this could not happen.

[353FMG]

A pipeline partially destroyed is like a woman partially pregnant. The result is an unacceptable outcome.

[cranked]

Have no doubt that Russia will be proclaimed by the West and Western media as the guilty party for the damage, etc., etc., etc.

[cranked]

All of you need to be watching Tucker Carlson Show tonight...........