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Alphabet agencies working overtime.
by mberning 4y ago
Alphabet agencies working overtime.
- o_1 4y agoso much for being covert, they aren't too great their job.
- tokai 4y agoHow would you blow up a pipeline without anyone noticing?
- liftm 4y agoIf nobody notices, did you really blow up the pipeline?
- baybal2 4y ago
- roenxi 4y agoIf there was a 1-month delay between the explosions, the people claiming it was coordinated would look a lot less credible. Particularly with the presence of large numbers of people with stakes in the outcome who will argue that the reality that makes them happiest is real.
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- randomcarbloke 4y agoYou want it to be overt without being explicit, if it looked like an accident it wouldn't be threatening.
- oldgradstudent 4y agoThe real question is whether it's Cyrillic or Latin.
- fffobar 4y agoImagine if it was arabic (to keep the LNG prices up, which everyone in Europe is now buying from the middle east like crazy). That would surely stir some things up.
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- elashri 4y agoThe last weird assumption like that the west did about middle east was the Iraqi WMD. Look how accurate and disastrous this turns out to be. But yes let's think outside the box.
- Dylan16807 4y ago> Imagine if > assumption K.
- Markoff 4y agoWell clear winner of current sitaution is US, clear loser is Europe/EU and Russia is somewhere in between, but they can sell their gas elsewhere, so what would be point sabotaging own business (though it could be false flag attack).
- koheripbal 4y agoNo, the winner here is clearly Russia. They wanted to cut the line to pressure the EU into pressuring Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire along existing battle lines. Cutting production through an "accident" allows them plausible deniability to cut Europe's gas supplies without formally violating the contract and for restoration negotiations if the Ukraine question is settled.
- Markoff 4y agoThey can still supply gas through the Ukraine/POland pipeline (Yamal/Brotherhood). And I don't think cutting these pipelines changes really anything, they were hardly delivering anything at all, so just destroying pipelines won't really help them plus even if EU caved they can't supply gas because the pipeline is damaged, if they were really relying on nord stream.