Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea

Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by globalnode on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @04:11AM (#33005455)

there are overland pipes through ukraine, poland, belarus, czech republic and austria too, so any likely putin usurpers could easily use those. wheres the rational for russia to blow them up really?

those countries didnt want ns2 because it cut out their middle man charges. most likely culprit is any of those countries (cough poland cough)

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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by XorNot on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @06:33AM (#33006444)

Russia is currently moving to cut it's remaining gas supply through Ukraine: https://twitter.com/GazpromEN/status/1575021274878791680

That supply, of note, has been running this whole time through the war[1] - but suddenly there is a reason to start breaking contracts right as a bunch of pipelines explode?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-gazprom-keep...

EDIT: Although on closer review, this might be coincidental since it's "just" arguments over payment. Conversely, the timing is a heck of a thing and Russia has escalated payment disputes into "and so we're cutting gas" previously.

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