Pipeline investigations ongoing...
MSM: Russia destroyed its pipeline / PUBLIC: they could have just turned off the pipeline, why destroy it? / MSM: Look! Nukes!
A statement about the NordStream pipeline... Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on acts of sabotage at the Nord Stream pipeline "Mr.President, We thank representatives of the UN Secretariat and Gazprom for the information they shared. We also thank Mr. Eyl-Mazzega. I will not comment on his interesting yet I think not always objective presentation of what has and is happening at the LNG market. We have a representative of Gazprom with us today, who may do the commenting if he wishes". "Mr.President, Russia requested this meeting in connection with the acts of sabotage at the three strings of the Nord Stream offshore pipeline system on 27 September 2022 in the exclusive economic zone of Denmark and Sweden, not far away from the Danish island of Bornholm. The General Prosecutor’s Office of Russia has initiated proceedings under the criminal code article about acts of international terrorism. Preliminary investigation is underway". "Let us simply compare the facts". 🔘 Fact #1. A few weeks prior to the beginning of the special military operation US President J.Biden said, "If Russia invades, that means tanks and troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, then there will be… there will be no longer Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it”. When asked by a journalist how that could be possible since Nord Stream-2 was controlled by Germany and not the United States, Biden said, “I promise you we will be able to do it” – the idea that was largely picked up by many US officials. 🔘 Fact #2. In June 2022 the Danish island of Bornholm, where the incident would take place in three months from that moment, served as the location for NATO’s military exercise BALTOPS in the Baltic Sea. According to the American media “Sea Power”, during the exercise NATO focused on testing unmanned underwater vehicles – the task for which the water area around Bornholm was best suited. After the exercise was completed, USS Kearsarge assault ship did not leave the Baltic Sea and remained in the vicinity of the island until the second decade of September. Most interestingly, the ship’s helicopter squad started patrolling the area around Bornholm as early as in August, and the flight line of those aircraft surprisingly coincided with the pipeline route. I emphasize that this is open data on geolocation of sea and air transport which is collected on the basis of the transponders’ signal. It means that the United States did not conceal its presence in the area and completed its maneuvers in an exhibitory and ostentatious way. 🔘 Fact #3. Right after the incident, former Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs of Poland Radek Sikorski posted a photo from the explosion site on his twitter feed and complimented the United States for this sabotage. “Thank you USA”, that’s what he wrote. But he did not stop at that and went even further, adding the following comment. “There’s no shortage of pipeline capacity for taking gas from Russia to Western Europe, including Germany. Nord Stream’s only logic was for Putin to be able to blackmail or wage war on Eastern Europe with impunity”. Yesterday he deleted this publication, apparently having realized that he had said more than he should have. We cannot fail to mention that Mr.Sikorski’s spouse, Anne Applebaum, is a person who is well received in Washington’s power circles and therefore has access to information of various sorts. 🔘 Fact #4. Almost simultaneously with the sabotage at the Nord Stream, the opening ceremony of another gas transportation facility, the Baltic Pipe, was taking place in the Polish city of Goleniow. It is a pipeline from Norway which Poland has long perceived as a salvation from the Nord Stream, even though its capacity cannot be compared to that of the Nord Stream. 🔘 Fact #5. NATO’s statement with regard to the incident, where the alliance warns about the dangerous consequences to follow any prospective attacks on its infrastructure. As if NATO was afraid someone might want to exact revenge on them. Well, as the proverb goes, uneasy conscience betrays itself. [...]
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Senior Pentagon Official: US ‘Absolutely Not Involved’ in Nord Stream Damage... The U.S. government has not issued an official denial but a senior official, speaking anonymously, denied sabotaging Nord Stream pipelines.
Nord Stream 2 and Military prrotection... As a long-ago frogman who has locked out of submerged submarines, ridden in mini-subs [SDVs], and practiced all kinds of underwater demolition, diving with air, mixed-gas and pure oxygen (for no bubbles), this article rings 100% true, right on target. Please read it, and then you will know more about the Nordstream 1 & 2 pipeline sabotage than 99.9% of people. Then please share it.
Nord Stream 2 and Military prrotection... [I agree 100% with this take, a further excerpt from the April 2021 article I posted above.] Forces and means of the enemy What military means can be used by a party wishing to harm the pipeline? There is an answer to this question. The pipeline mainly runs at depths of about 100-150 meters, often closer to a hundred. The use of combat swimmers for sabotage at such a depth is excluded - the need to undergo decompression requires the presence of a vessel with a pressure chamber somewhere nearby, which in itself is a strong unmasking factor. In addition, such an operation takes time. The use of depth charges will unequivocally indicate that the military of some country was working. In addition, the stealth factor again arises - a ship with this weapon will not have time to leave after its use. The attack must be completely invisible. Under such conditions, the most likely means to attack the pipeline is the so-called mine destroyer - a disposable uninhabited underwater vehicle (UUV), controlled from a surface ship via a fiber-optic cable, having its own television camera and a simple sonar. Such devices are in service with foreign fleets in huge quantities. The device carries an explosive charge on board, the remote detonation of which destroys the mine. The main feature in the case of Nord Stream is that the device can be secretly launched from a ship located quite far (several kilometers) from the pipeline, and connected to the pipeline remotely. The explosion of the apparatus will be carried out when the ship is not next to it. It will be enough for the crew of the ship to simply throw the control equipment overboard in order to calmly leave the place of sabotage. Poland has the ability to use such devices. The US, of course, too. In addition, the mercenary industry developed in the United States makes it possible to work not with the hands of their own military personnel or the military personnel of the Polish Armed Forces, but to use mercenaries to train some kind of "cannon fodder" for such an operation. For example, even from Ukraine, whose citizens are well aware of how the launch of Nord Stream 2 will turn out for their country. [more at link]
Nord Stream 2 requires military protection... The West continues to put pressure on Russia to stop the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline - and the most important event in this chain was the Polish military provocations. Can opponents of the gas pipeline resort to real military operations against Nord Stream 2 - and if so, what should Russia counter this with?
NATO believes Baltic Sea gas pipeline leaks were sabotage... The NATO military alliance warned Thursday it would retaliate for any attacks on the critical infrastructure of its 30 member countries and joined other Western officials in citing sabotage as the likely cause of damage to two natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
