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Re:4th leak reported on Nord Stream pipelines in Baltic Sea by hdjjhhvvhga on Thursday September 29, 2022 @08:07AM (#33019425)
> Indeed this angle I think is the right direction. It's a bit like Cortez burning the boats. Removing me from power won't mean that you get to go back to business as usual and sell gas to Europe.

I thought about it, too. But even this hypothesis has a weak point: the Yamal pipeline is still working well. So this is a moot point: if the generals or whoever decide to kill Putin and takeover, they will be able to resume sending the gas through Yamal immediately.

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Re:4th leak reported on Nord Stream pipelines in Baltic Sea by taylodl on Thursday September 29, 2022 @10:25AM (#33021067)
I thought about your scenario, and there's a couple of things to consider. One, is the shipping capacity has still been reduced. The total amount of NG Russia can ship has been reduced. The other is it would be much more difficult to camouflage the sabotage of the Yamal pipeline, unlike the NS1 and NS2 pipelines which has the cover of the sea.
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