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“How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”

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688 points hunglee2 | 2 comments | 08 Feb 23 12:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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thwayunion ◴[08 Feb 23 19:18 UTC] No.34713318[source]▶
> 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.

I'd bet my last dollar that at least four nations had "blow up Nord Stream to force continued conflict" contingency plans.

Who did it? Germany, Russia, USA, Ukraine, or a curve ball from the one of the Nordic or Baltic states? We'll probably never know, and none of those answers would surprise me.

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1. SeanLuke ◴[09 Feb 23 02:39 UTC] No.34719089[source]▶
Just how many submarines does Ukraine have right now?
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2. thwayunion ◴[09 Feb 23 15:42 UTC] No.34725564[source]▶
You don't need a submarine to blow up a pipeline at 300ft below the surface lol. A master driver or cheap underwater drone, and access to some explosives, will do.