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“How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”

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688 points hunglee2 | 5 comments | 08 Feb 23 12:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.819s | source
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mmastrac ◴[08 Feb 23 19:03 UTC] No.34713024[source]▶
It's a great story, but it's all unsourced and could be a decent Tom Clancy story at best. You could probably write a similar one with Russia or German agents as the key players and be just as convincing.

The only anchor in reality appears to be Biden suggesting that they knew how to take it out which seems like a pretty weak place to build a large story.

What I find particularly odd is that this entire thing appears to be based on a single, unnamed source "with direct knowledge of the operational planning".

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1. sampo ◴[08 Feb 23 21:08 UTC] No.34715192[source]▶
> It's a great story, but it's all unsourced and could be a decent Tom Clancy story at best. You could probably write a similar one with Russia or German agents as the key players and be just as convincing.

That's why there were several explosions: Everyone was blowing it up at the same time, unbeknownst of each other's plans.

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2. hef19898 ◴[08 Feb 23 21:20 UTC] No.34715356[source]▶
Just imagine the debriefing questions: Why did you guys blow up the wrong pipeline, and two hours before schedule????
3. IIAOPSW ◴[08 Feb 23 22:29 UTC] No.34716424[source]▶
Semi related darkly humorous daydream: what are the odds of two unrelated school shooters at the same school on the same day?
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4. spacechild1 ◴[08 Feb 23 22:44 UTC] No.34716638[source]▶
Just like the JFK assassination in "Illuminatus!" :-)
5. amanaplanacanal ◴[08 Feb 23 23:17 UTC] No.34717086[source]▶
Was it in Illuminatus where there were 3 independent shooters trying to assassinate Kennedy at the same time?