Nord Stream blast 'blew away 50 metres of pipe'

Re:Nord Stream blast 'blew away 50 metres of pipe' by colpabar on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:16AM (#33247523)

Europe used to buy a lot of natural gas from russia via these pipelines. Now that they're gone, they will have to buy from someone else. The united states has a lot of natural gas to sell them.

edit: nice stealth edit. the original comment was just "what would the motive be?" which imo is a perfectly fine question to ask. the "conspiratorial" line has me wondering though: what would a non conspiratorial theory be?

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Re:Nord Stream blast 'blew away 50 metres of pipe' by matthewdgreen on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:18AM (#33247568)

One of the NS2 strings is still operable, and Russia is still offering to sell gas to Germany through it.

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Re:Nord Stream blast 'blew away 50 metres of pipe' by JasonFruit on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:30AM (#33247763)

That seems like an odd offer from a nation that allegedly attempted to destroy the pipeline.

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Re:Nord Stream blast 'blew away 50 metres of pipe' by matthewdgreen on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:43AM (#33247963)

Invading Ukraine and blowing up your most lucrative export relationships also seemed pretty odd to most observers. I don't really know how to judge what's "odd" anymore.

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Re:Nord Stream blast 'blew away 50 metres of pipe' by nathanaldensr on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:20AM (#33247596)

While this is true, it seems to be only incidentally true--i.e., the intent was to blow up all the pipes.

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Re:Nord Stream blast 'blew away 50 metres of pipe' by mantas on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:19AM (#33247581)

Both pipelines were not operating for a while. They’d be helpful after the war to get gas as reparations though.

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