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Sabotaging Your Own Pipelines Is Absurdly Easy

Occam's razor and Nord Stream

Sep 29, 2022
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White House: Nord Stream gas pipeline leaks 'apparent sabotage' - ABC News

Someone on the Russian end of the Nord Stream pipeleines put bombs into “pigs,” or scrapers, sent them halfway under the Baltic Sea, and detonated them.

This one-sentence explanation for the disaster elegantly lines up with the available facts. Danish officials first noticed a drop in pressure in the Nord Stream 2 line on Monday and then Nord Stream 1 a…

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