Posted on 09/28/2022 12:39:20 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
While the Ukrainians are fighting a conventional war on their own territory, Russia and the West are engaged in an unconventional one fought by economic pressure, political subterfuge and dirty tricks. The apparent sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines seems just the latest example.
Both of these lines linking Russia to Germany have sprung devastating leaks. The cause, according to seismological readings, was a series of explosions off the Danish island of Bornholm, too directed (and powerful enough to breach 4cm of steel and a thick concrete mantle) and too synchronised to be any kind of an accident.
There are those in Russia who, predictably enough, are blaming the Ukrainians. Given that the Russians took their last working submarine in 2014, though, this is implausible even by their standards.
While some are instead seeing an American plot behind the leaks, the most credible answer for now is that the Russians dunnit. But why sabotage their own pipelines, especially when neither was at the time pumping energy to Europe?
The answer is likely to be as a warning. If you want to signal that, if pushed to escalation, you might regard foreign pipelines and other undersea assets as fair game – and the underwater cables that are the arteries of the global internet are the obvious concern here – then a safer option is to hit your own.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
If Russia wanted to send a warning, they could do so much less ambiguously with words. You know, like this:
they completely ignore Biden’s statement.
That headline is hilarious.
The gaslight is blinding.
Wasn’t this done by dragging a bomb along the ocean floor from a cable?
https://twitter.com/WarfareReports/status/1575112674517598211
Sanctions Against USA” trending in Germany
They blame you for what they do.
Plus where is the evidence that Russia is sobating this pipeline?
Oh, it is kind of like evidence of WMDs in Iraq.
It’s all speculation on every side at this point.
Russia is not behind this.
Actually it’s more akin to a mobster blowing up his paying customers to send a message to the non paying ones.
But it’s not like our state media is going to tell the truth and say we did it if we did.
And if it really isn’t us - it’s China.
And, FACTUALLY, no one AFAIK has actually gone down to look and see what happened yet. It still COULD be an accidental rupture of some sort like deepwater horizon. Further proof that this is propaganda
Who has the most to gain?
It's not rocket Bidenry.
Simultaneous events don’t point to accidents.
Sikorski is a former Polish minister of defense.
The NS pipelines (plural) were blown up the same day that the new Norway-Poland pipeline came on line.
Just amazing coincidences.
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Michael Tracey:
We know the US Government always told the complete truth about the USS Maine, the RMS Lusitania, the USS Greer, the Gulf of Tonkin, Iraqi babies in incubators, WMDs, etc. So there’s every reason to believe they’re telling the complete truth about the Nordstream pipeline explosions.
Utterly retarded.
I post this as an example of the imbecility pouring forth from the neocons and puppet media .... Bingo
they completely ignore Biden’s statement ... and Nuland’s
Interestingly, I haven’t read many comments from all the Zelensky worshippers on FR. Maybe they’re forming up to unleash a deluge of comments accusing all of us of being Pro-Putin.
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