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"Handling a 500 kg payload" 1kg would be enough to breach a pipe. A single determined diver, not necessarily following OSHA rules could do it. The question I

• greenavocado 2y ago
  In a letter to the U.N. Security Council from Sept. 29, three days after the incidents, Denmark and Sweden said they believed that “several hundred kilograms” of explosives had been used to damage the pipes, each of which measures more than three-and-a-half feet in diameter and is made from steel encased in weighted concrete. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explosions.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/world/europe/nord-stream-... https://archive.is/00tvb https://archive.is/00tvb
• dtquad 2y ago
  The German security, media, and political establishment has been completely infiltrated by Russia over the past 30 years. So many of Germany's bad decisions over the past few decades can be explained by this. Germany taking in millions Syrians is often viewed by critics through the lens of "(naive) empathy". But they were just helping Russia get rid of anti-Assad Syrians.