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"There are a few things in this series of events that don’t quite add up on the surface. - Why only 3/4 pipes targeted? - Why NS2 targeted 80km away from NS1?

• croes 4y ago
  Maybe they didn't have time to target all four pipes or couldn't get enough explosives or or or. Even plans with a lot more money, planning and time aren't executed perfectly. Edit because of one comment suggesting it was a russian group pretending to be Ukrainian: Maybe it was a Ukrainian group pretending to be russian that's why they only blew up 3 pipes.
• vintermann 4y ago
  * The obvious theory for that is that not all went according to plan. * There is an area between the two blast sites where fishing and anchoring is restricted, due to large amounts of chemical weapons being dumped there after WW2. So it makes some sense, if you assume the saboteurs wanted to avoid creating a toxic disaster. Though, why not just blow up all of them in the same location? that's a good question... But it's confusing no matter who you think was behind it. Probably down to poor decision-making, whoever did it. BUT, you can assume they were very powerful and confident in their abilities, because surely blowing up a pipeline in two different spots is much harder than just one. (So not six guys in a yacht.) * The third point isn't even really a point.