Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says

Re:Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says by kube-system on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:31PM (#33672322)

Deniability is the main difference between shutting them off and sabotaging them.

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Re:Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says by tsimionescu on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:37PM (#33672401)

Does that work for the EU situation? Russia had already denied to supply the required amounts of gas before the sabotage happened...

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Re:Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says by kube-system on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:43PM (#33672494)

Russia had suspect excuses for those cuts as well. Never once did they say “we’re shutting this off because fuck you”. They always left room for diplomatic deniability.

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Re:Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says by tsimionescu on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:56PM (#33672681)

Fair enough.

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Re:Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says by colordrops on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:48PM (#33672570)

Deniability and blackmail are at odds with each other.

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Re:Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says by kube-system on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:02PM (#33672752)

Yeah it’s not blackmail, it’s coercion.

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Re:Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says by colordrops on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:15PM (#33672927)

What's the distinction? I'm going with the term used in the wiki link.

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