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Re:Was the Nord Stream 2 Rupture an Accidental Catalyst? by mikeyouse on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:10AM (#34865126)
That Minerva Julie track is certainly interesting.. a week after Russia cuts the gas through NS1, a Russiann-linked oil freighter (that had just been added to Ukraine's war sponsor registry (https://nazk.gov.ua/en/news/companies-from-the-nacp-list-of-...)) spends nearly a week loitering directly over the site of the explosions that would come 10 days later. Far more open source evidence for this theory than Hersh's, though that's not saying a ton.
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Re:Was the Nord Stream 2 Rupture an Accidental Catalyst? by londons_explore on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:54AM (#34865362)
But if they knew they were laying explosives, would they really do so with their AIS transponder on?
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Re:Was the Nord Stream 2 Rupture an Accidental Catalyst? by lostlogin on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:36AM (#34865610)
What have you seen in previous Russian operations would make you think they wouldn’t? Competence has not been a hallmark for a long time.
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Re:Was the Nord Stream 2 Rupture an Accidental Catalyst? by brutusborn on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:07AM (#34865443)
Yeah the comments arguing about missing ship data make no sense, of course the perpetrators would have tried to cover their tracks.
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Re:Was the Nord Stream 2 Rupture an Accidental Catalyst? by mikeyouse on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:46AM (#34865666)
It was a commercial ship that had just left port in the Netherlands -- it feels like it'd be twice as suspicious if it spent a week adjacent to a shipping lane, in full view of other ships with its transponder off.
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