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Originally Posted by mikephoen
Personally, the part of the store that always seemed fishy to me was that only a few countries could pull this off. All you need is someone who can navigate a boat, some experienced deep sea divers, an explosives expert and enough money to procure a boat, explosives and the people you need to hire.
I don't think the location of the pipeline is any secret, nor do I think the sea over it is restricted at all (I could be wrong about this, I'm certainly not an expert). Assuming those things are true though, it doesn't sound like it would be hard to sabatoge.
Maybe I'm underestimating how much explosives you would need, or just how difficult the dive would be or something. I guess it's possible that this was extremely difficult, but on the surface it doesn't sound unreasonable for a small team of people to do it.
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Yeah, I'm no expert on this kind of thing either. It's just that everything coming out about this theory is completely incongruous with what the same intelligence/military sources were saying about the operation in the months after it happened. Back then, it was thousands of pounds of explosives, with 3 different dive sites at over 100m deep, and then the operation having the capability to remotely detonate and do all this without being seen in a very heavily trafficked area. Now it's a few guys in a rented yacht who are too sloppy to clean it up before returning it?
Not to mention, this is all being leaked now for some reason. It certainly doesn't help Ukraine, so what's the motive here? There's an article in the Times claiming that NATO intelligence agencies knew within a week of it happening that it was this group that did it, and that they were keeping it under wraps to protect Ukraine. But now they release it?