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Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

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151 points hunglee2 | 4 comments | 16 Sep 25 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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neves ◴[16 Sep 25 14:06 UTC] No.45262447[source]▶
Wasn't it the point of Nord Stream sabotage? https://brian-whit.medium.com/nord-stream-sabotage-a-look-at...
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bilekas ◴[16 Sep 25 14:20 UTC] No.45262603[source]▶
No. This was alleged to be taken out by Ukrainian special forces in order to twist Europe's arm, which is a good thing in the end, but so far as anyone knows it had nothing to to with the US. Until I hear anything proving otherwise I will take what we know as all we know for now.

The US were not thrilled about it when it was being constructed, obviously, but this was normal tensions towards Russia, prescient in the end but here we are.

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pclmulqdq ◴[16 Sep 25 14:21 UTC] No.45262627[source]▶
Are we sure that Ukrainian special forces have the capability to blow up nord stream without heavy US help?
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jcranmer ◴[16 Sep 25 15:00 UTC] No.45263250[source]▶
They have demonstrated capabilities like blowing up the Kerch Strait bridge or several Russian oil refineries without US help, what makes you think Nord Stream is too difficult for them?
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1. 123iasdjrZ ◴[16 Sep 25 15:34 UTC] No.45263674{3}[source]▶
According to the New York Times, Ukraine receives major help from the US on all fronts:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-...

The first Kerch Bridge attempt was only a partial success. Traffic continued almost the next day. The second attempt was a complete failure. For the refineries, Ukraine uses at least GPS.

The sail boat theory is plausible from diving standpoint, but they allegedly installed explosives on NS-1 and NS-2 sites that were at least 100km apart, within 10 hours, with no decompression equipment. If they can do that, why do they repeatedly fail at Kerch Bridge?

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2. gruez ◴[16 Sep 25 15:37 UTC] No.45263720[source]▶
They sent their A team for the pipeline and B team for the bridge?
3. jcranmer ◴[16 Sep 25 15:49 UTC] No.45263884[source]▶
> If they can do that, why do they repeatedly fail at Kerch Bridge?

The bridge is approximately 3km long or so, which makes it relatively easy to maintain a continuous 24/7 armed presence to prevent sabotage. An underwater pipeline is a 1200km stretch mostly in other international territory that is hard to protect. Definitely much easier to blow up a pipeline than it is to blow up a bridge.

4. nradov ◴[16 Sep 25 15:50 UTC] No.45263890[source]▶
Why bring up "decompression equipment"? Have you ever even done any tech diving? We just deco in the water. No special equipment is needed beyond a rebreather or some stage tanks.