Well, supposedly someone related to the Biden admin made noises re: blowing up the pipeline.
But it was just somebody bloviating in the normal manner of politicians, and not really in power of anything.
Well, supposedly someone related to the Biden admin made noises re: blowing up the pipeline.
But it was just somebody bloviating in the normal manner of politicians, and not really in power of anything.
I’m still curious about other potential actors, such as OPEC, China, Ukraine, random smaller terrorist organizations.
I hadn’t actually heard the “it’s russia” side of the argument here it is from wikipedia:
A researcher from the Royal Danish Defence College argued that Russia would benefit from more disturbances in the European gas market.[57]
Finland’s national public broadcasting company Yle compared the incident to the two explosions in 2006 caused by remote-controlled military-grade charges.[58] The explosions halted Russian gas supply to Georgia after the country had started seeking NATO membership.[58]
Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said it was “a terrorist attack planned by Russia and an act of aggression towards the EU”, Russia wanting to “destabilise the economic situation in Europe and cause pre-winter panic”.[51][53]
In an interview with the German broadsheet Süddeutsche Zeitung,[60] a former CEO of the national Ukrainian gas supplier Naftogaz, Andriy Kobolyev, gave his assessment that Russia was behind the explosions, arguing:
And yeah, this is appealing, but I’d rather see it scienced out, what with me being an actuary.com and all.
You read my original link?
Yeah. And I like it but it totally lacks any details. Like how big is a “typical” hydrate plug explosion. Because it might be totally realistic or it might not be.
Of course maybe we just don’t have any notion of what hydrate plugs do, but that makes me not want to use them in my explanation.