Re:Was the Nord Stream 2 Rupture an Accidental Catalyst?
by jcranmer on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:22AM
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The issue here is that the state with the most motive (Ukraine) is one that most are agreed did not have the opportunity to actually conduct the attack. Nobody else has a strong motive. The US had already achieved what it could have hoped to achieve months before the pipeline explosion. Russia's plausible motive assumes a certain amount of strategic insanity mixed with thuggery. Everybody else's motive more or less rests on making a political statement that they haven't been making in public.
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Re:Was the Nord Stream 2 Rupture an Accidental Catalyst?
by tim333 on Monday February 20, 2023 @03:28PM
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I'm not so sure Ukraine didn't have the means. See "Royal Navy divers train Ukrainians to hunt for mines with underwater drones" for example https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2...
We've seen Ukranian drones drop grenades on tanks and attack ships at Sevastopol so it wouldn't seem that unlikely.
Also the Russians said it was Royal Navy + Ukranians https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-british-nav... As a Brit I'd like to think so.