*** Official Putin Started Shootin' Thread ***

[MadMojoMonkey]

It's not the only pipeline in the area.

It's be at least morbidly funny if the Russians went out to pop someone else's line and accidentally popped their own.


I don't see any reason to rule out incompetence on either side of this, myself.

[OngBonga]

There are pipelines in the same sea going from Norway to Germany, but these pipes are nowhere near the location of the Nord Stream leaks and go through the straight between Copenhagen and Malmo. The Russian Navy has a port in the Baltic Sea and regularly sails through it. They know these waters as well as anybody. There is absolutely no way they can intend to blow up the Europipe between Norway and Germany, and accidentally blow up the Nord Stream near Bournholm Island.

[OngBonga]

pipes.jpg

Black line is Nord Stream,
White line is Europipe,
Red mark is the approximate location of the leaks.