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What's the advantage of blowing up a pipeline over simply shutting the valve when you control the valve AND supply?

by mc32 4y ago

ajross 4y ago
Removing the incentive for your own power structure to knife you in the back to get the gas pipe turned back on.
- mc32 4y ago
  I think they have special "camps" and unfortunate mundane accidents such as inopportune tripping hazards next to open 10th floor windows and landlubbers swimming in open ocean for that.
Rexxar 4y ago
Show everybody that you can to it on other pipelines while doing it only on a currently useless one (I answer the question by giving one possible advantage, I have no opinion on the real cause at the moment)
- mc32 4y ago
  There is little value in crazy showing crazy can do crazy things. We know crazy can do crazy. It like Kim, jung-un --it does not have to show us it is willing to lob a nuke, we know it would lob one if if needed to for self-preservation. These are rational actors, their reasoning might be foreign to us and operate differently, but they act within their own rational frameworks.
  - Rexxar 4y ago
    > There is little value in crazy showing crazy can do crazy things There can be some strategical value in some situation to be perceived as crazy. > These are rational actors Probably but it's not 100% guaranteed
- avgcorrection 4y ago
  As a show of force I will destroy one of my own battalions. Watch out world: I could do the same to yours!
  - mc32 4y ago
    Exactly. Except for Intelligence agencies, we do not know who did it. However, the media consensus is that the enemy did self sabotage to show us they can do bad things? We know they very well can do bad things. They do not have to prove it. Hell, GWBush was an inch away from approving tactical nuke use in Afghanistan but ultimately talked out of it and opted for the MOAB, but now a cornered rat thinking about it is now crazy? Does that mean GWB was crazy too?

What's the advantage of blowing up a pipeline over simply shutting the valve when you control the valve AND supply?

by mc32 4y ago

What's the advantage of blowing up a pipeline over simply shutting the valve when you control the valve AND supply?

ajross 4y ago

Removing the incentive for your own power structure to knife you in the back to get the gas pipe turned back on.

mc32 4y ago
I think they have special "camps" and unfortunate mundane accidents such as inopportune tripping hazards next to open 10th floor windows and landlubbers swimming in open ocean for that.

Rexxar 4y ago

Show everybody that you can to it on other pipelines while doing it only on a currently useless one (I answer the question by giving one possible advantage, I have no opinion on the real cause at the moment)

mc32 4y ago
There is little value in crazy showing crazy can do crazy things. We know crazy can do crazy. It like Kim, jung-un --it does not have to show us it is willing to lob a nuke, we know it would lob one if if needed to for self-preservation. These are rational actors, their reasoning might be foreign to us and operate differently, but they act within their own rational frameworks.
- Rexxar 4y ago
  > There is little value in crazy showing crazy can do crazy things There can be some strategical value in some situation to be perceived as crazy. > These are rational actors Probably but it's not 100% guaranteed
avgcorrection 4y ago
As a show of force I will destroy one of my own battalions. Watch out world: I could do the same to yours!
- mc32 4y ago
  Exactly. Except for Intelligence agencies, we do not know who did it. However, the media consensus is that the enemy did self sabotage to show us they can do bad things? We know they very well can do bad things. They do not have to prove it. Hell, GWBush was an inch away from approving tactical nuke use in Afghanistan but ultimately talked out of it and opted for the MOAB, but now a cornered rat thinking about it is now crazy? Does that mean GWB was crazy too?