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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The thing with these theories is why go all the way to the border of Danish territorial waters to do it? They could have had the same effect by destroying the pipe further upstream and not take the big risk of being caught red handed. The risks just don't seem proportionate to the rewards.
The location of the blasts was extremely inconvenient for the Russians. If they chose that location, there would have to be a bigger payoff for them IMO.
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there was absolutely no risk of being caught though, this was as simple an operation as possible, a couple of divers and a bit of Semtex, nothing more, the further away from Russia the better from Russia's point of view, it sends the message they aren't afraid to pull off this kind of operation in Norwegian waters while still allowing them to pretend it was nothing to do with them, it also reduces any outrage in Russia itself, their military already looks utterly incompetent, you don't really want a pipeline blown up in your own waters as your official story then would be you allowed foreign divers to destroy stuff in your own back yard, not a story Russia wants to push right now, this allows Russia to not have to be outraged at its waters being violated