Posted on 10/03/2022 4:27:46 AM PDT by Travis McGee
Secret talks between Russia and Germany to resolve their Nord Stream 1 and 2 issues had to be averted at any cost.
The War of Economic Corridors has entered incandescent, uncharted territory: Pipeline Terror.
A sophisticated military operation – that required exhaustive planning, possibly involving several actors – blew up four separate sections of the Nord Stream (NS) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) gas pipelines this week in the shallow waters of the Danish straits, in the Baltic Sea, near the island of Bornholm.
Swedish seismologists estimated that the power of the explosions may have reached the equivalent of up to 700 kg of TNT. Both NS and NS2, near the strong currents around Borholm, are placed at the bottom of the sea at a depth of 60 meters.
The pipes are built with steel reinforced concrete, able to withstand impact from aircraft carrier anchors, and are basically indestructible without serious explosive charges. The operation – causing two leaks near Sweden and two near Denmark – would have to be carried out by modified underwater drones.
Every crime implies motive. The Russian government wanted – at least up to the sabotage – to sell oil and natural gas to the EU. The notion that Russian intel would destroy Gazprom pipelines is beyond ludicrous. All they had to do was to turn off the valves. NS2 was not even operational, based on a political decision from Berlin. The gas flow in NS was hampered by western sanctions. Moreover, such an act would imply Moscow losing key strategic leverage over the EU.
Diplomatic sources confirm that Berlin and Moscow were involved in a secret negotiation to solve both the NS and NS2 issues. So they had to be stopped – no holds barred. Geopolitically, the entity that had the motive to halt a deal holds anathema a possible alliance in the horizon between Germany, Russia, and China.
Whodunnit? The possibility of an “impartial” investigation of such a monumental act of sabotage – coordinated by NATO, no less – is negligible. [much more at link]
But yes, no coincidence.
The proles in Europe only see the new pipe opening.
They don't do numbers, like most people.
well, the fact the Baltic pipeline was present and functioning doesn’t mean it was utilized to capacity. It can now run at full capacity and increase sales
True. I was thinking about that yesterday. I will speculate they just blow it out with compressed air.
My impression is that the "pipe" is not metal, but just a passage way designed through the concrete casing.
27-28 BCM annnually?
10 bcm.
A medium-size fish cannot move around that area without being picked up and recorded by dozens of underwater sensors.
Russia has transit rights, at least during peacetime, in and out from St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad. But their ships are monitored every inch of the way, in and out.
The pipe is more than an inch thick of special high-tensile steel alloy, encased in more inches of high-strength ferro-cement.
> whodunit?
bond... james bond...
“Anthony Blinken’s ‘Tremendous Opportunity’ Ain’t Good News For Germany And the United Kingdom”
https://sonar21.com/anthony-blinkens-tremendous-opportunity-aint-good-news-for-germany-and-the-united-kingdom/
Act of International Sabotage.
Act of International Terrorism.
Arguably, a breach of NATO Article 5.
Blinken, aka the US, like the criminals they are returning to the scene of a crime.....
The only way to stop the insanity of war is to make those who push it and benefit from it to feel the same level of death, pain and suffering that they impose on the rest of humanity.
You have to wonder if he's broken an honest sweat doing manual labor in his entire life.
Naturally, his wife Evan Ryan has a different last name, which helps hide the fact that she also is a White Hospice insider [White House Cabinet Secretary].
“The West Is Discrediting NATO’s Article 5 By Claiming That Russia Blew Up Nord Stream”
https://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=3330
60 meters wd is easily within commercial and military diving depth. Repair involves retrieving both damaged ends, attaching new section of pipe, dewatering, inspection, testing, and return to production. Depending on installation and repair pipelay barges or ships, plus fabrication of new section(s), repair could take several weeks to several months. Also Baltic Sea weather window for installation is probably closing fast so maybe repair accomplished next summer.
Flooding is not a difficult problem. Subsea pipelines are installed with treated seawater in the pipeline. Dewatering after installation using a pig is a common practice.
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