@bidetmarxman: A few hours ago, the pressure in Nord Stream 2, the undersea gas line connecting Russia and Germany, plummeted and began leaking gas bubbles into the Baltic sea near the Danish island of Bornholm. 🧵...…
In addition to that, it seems that there were apparrently a small flotilla of NATO military ships doing “exercices” of new tech for “underwater interventions” (you know, innocent stuff like disabling sea mines … or sabotaging a pipeline). The last positions known of those ships was only a few dozen kilometers from the places with the leaks (something like 50 km from the NS1 leaks, and 60 km from the NS2 leak, or the reverse, not sure from memory), and I also read someone saying that the ships stopped transmitting their positions soon after that (maybe not unusual when doing military exercices, but if the case it would be the perfect cover), but i have yet to see a source for that, so take it will a little salt.
Ok doing some research, I found reference to this NATO naval exercices in june (so not so long ago) near the Island of Gotland, close to where the leaks happenned, so this would match what I read elsewere : https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_196240.htm
Of course the leaks happenned long after the exercice ended, but if we go by the example of the 2015 failed sabotage, then they might have simply used the exercices as a cover to approach the pipelines and put there unmaned devices that they activated later (after all a leak when they were still there would have been too obvious).
Funny thing is that a few day agos there was another NATO navak exercice, this one near the coast Portugal, about new " unmanned systems for maritime operations" : https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_207293.htm
In addition to that, it seems that there were apparrently a small flotilla of NATO military ships doing “exercices” of new tech for “underwater interventions” (you know, innocent stuff like disabling sea mines … or sabotaging a pipeline). The last positions known of those ships was only a few dozen kilometers from the places with the leaks (something like 50 km from the NS1 leaks, and 60 km from the NS2 leak, or the reverse, not sure from memory), and I also read someone saying that the ships stopped transmitting their positions soon after that (maybe not unusual when doing military exercices, but if the case it would be the perfect cover), but i have yet to see a source for that, so take it will a little salt.
Ok doing some research, I found reference to this NATO naval exercices in june (so not so long ago) near the Island of Gotland, close to where the leaks happenned, so this would match what I read elsewere : https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_196240.htm
Of course the leaks happenned long after the exercice ended, but if we go by the example of the 2015 failed sabotage, then they might have simply used the exercices as a cover to approach the pipelines and put there unmaned devices that they activated later (after all a leak when they were still there would have been too obvious).
Funny thing is that a few day agos there was another NATO navak exercice, this one near the coast Portugal, about new " unmanned systems for maritime operations" : https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_207293.htm