The Regime Changers have begin to say the silent part out loud.
Hahhahha Putin getting kicked out seems to upset you. The end of Putin means the end of the Ukraine war. Even if hard liner Nikolai Patrushev takes over.
Simple-— This war is bad for business for Russia. Bad for oligarch’s business. Bad for Gazprom profits. Craptastic Tsar Putin is bad for business.
Vlad -— Dead or deposed by March.
We have been so good at regime change throughout the last few decades, haven’t we?
Considering Russia's incompetence in fighting this war, I bet the Nord Stream pipelines suffered catastrophic failure due to piss poor maintenance. These effing Russian elites are as dumb as our effing elites.
And now these Russian elites want to go nuclear and we have Biden/Obama running things on our side?
From article:
“The most significant to him is the formation of “hydrate plugs” which under certain circumstances are formed from the natural gas/methane in the pipelines and preventing them requires constant work “requiring vigilance, expertise, diligence and constant water removal.” If they are not removed, the solid hydrates can cause cracks and fires. To clear these plugs in pipelines this size requires weeks of “Slow depressurization from both ends simultaneously.”
In 2000, he notes, the Russians tried to remove a hydrate plug from a pipeline in Siberia using a butane torch and they ruptured the pipe and destroyed “several miles of very expensive pipeline.”
“Both Nord Stream pipelines were fully charged with natural gas and just sitting at the bottom of the sea — ‘Hundreds of millions of cubic meters of explosive “gaseous hydrocarbons being transported by Russians, and subject to Russian maintenance.”
This theory, while not definitive in the absence of evidence, is persuasive enough to me that the finger pointing at everyone else should take a long pause. It's pure speculation, while the need for constant maintenance of undersea gas pipelines and Russian incompetence is not.”