And here is one you would enjoy.
Posted on 09/27/2022 1:22:06 PM PDT by EBH
A series of unusual leaks on two natural gas pipelines running from Russia under the Baltic Sea to Germany triggered concerns about sabotage Tuesday, overshadowing the inauguration of a long-awaited pipeline that will bring Norwegian gas to Poland to bolster Europe’s energy independence from Moscow.
Seismic stations Sweden, Norway and Finland registered two explosions Monday near the leaks.
Bjorn Lund, a seismologist with Uppsala University who is part of Sweden’s national seismic network, said the first explosion was recorded in the early hours southeast of the Danish island of Bornholm. The latter and stronger blast that night was northeast of the island and equivalent to a magnitude-2.3 earthquake.
“We know very well what an underwater blast looks like. And so in this case, there’s no doubt this is not an earthquake,” Lund said.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called the events “an act of sabotage,” while Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she could not rule it out after three leaks were detected over the past day on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which are filled with gas but not delivering the fuel to Europe. An energy standoff over Russia’s war in Ukraine halted flows on Nord Stream 1 and prevented them from ever starting in the parallel Nord Stream 2.
Frederiksen, Morawiecki and Polish President Andrzej Duda symbolically opened a valve of a yellow pipe belonging to the Baltic Pipe, a new system that will bring Norway’s gas across Denmark and the Baltic Sea to Poland.
“The era of Russian domination in the gas sphere is coming to an end,” Morawiecki declared. “An era that was marked by blackmail, threats and extortion.”
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And here is one you would enjoy.
The $85 billion number is the one that has been widely disseminated, so that is the number I cited. Not being in the CBO, I don’t personally know one way or the other; so, I defer to them, and others who should know; and that is the number they came up with.
How do you know it wasn’t a suspicion that Putin might do something big, like call up 300,000 troops?
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