Bairnardo Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 No surprise that the Swedes and Danes have found evidence of explosives being used to blow up the Nord pipelines. Presumably they'll be able to tell if the blast came from the inside or outside. Was just think it might have been possible to send a suicidal robotic vehicle laden with a match to ignite the gas, from either end? Or with TNT.. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-russia-not-invited-nord-stream-investigation-2022-10-06/A pig with a timed or remote detonated explosive on it would be a very simple proposition. I imagine though that even in its dormant state, the receiving end would know if there was a pig in the line because it needs gas to push it..... So something self propelled then.... Some sort of drone. Wouldn't imagine its beyond the realms of fairly simple technology. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 23 minutes ago, Ross. said: Ah well. Had a decent run at it I guess. What did he say? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 1 hour ago, dorlomin said: Does not mean they are headed to Ukraine, just that there is now a pretty wide desire to send modernish tanks there in the European Parliament. It will still all hang on the Bundeskanzelor and his appetite for the risks. Is that English for "Federal Chancellor"? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 7 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: A pig with a timed or remote detonated explosive on it would be a very simple proposition. I imagine though that even in its dormant state, the receiving end would know if there was a pig in the line because it needs gas to push it..... So something self propelled then.... Some sort of drone. Wouldn't imagine its beyond the realms of fairly simple technology. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 30 minutes ago, Ross. said: Ah well. Had a decent run at it I guess. That's a Detournement source right there. Meanwhile, in the real world, the Ruskies were rowing back their nuclear rhetoric even further this morning. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 45 minutes ago, Elixir said: That's a Detournement source right there. Meanwhile, in the real world, the Ruskies were rowing back their nuclear rhetoric even further this morning. It definitely parrots a lot of alt right/ “classic liberal” political patter. I mostly follow it for the finance market takes, which can be insightful at times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Perhaps unsurprisingly, Zelenskyy said nothing of the sort. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Here’s one to reinvigorate the “Putin has cancer/stroke/heart disease” lines. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 5 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Here’s one to reinvigorate the “Putin has cancer/stroke/heart disease” lines. Have to admit my Russian is a bit rusty... 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo-A-Gogo Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 1 minute ago, Salvo Montalbano said: Have to admit my Russian is a bit rusty... I suppose you had to be there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flood Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 43 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Here’s one to reinvigorate the “Putin has cancer/stroke/heart disease” lines. Patriarch Kirill invited the clergy and believers to "pray for health" Vladimir Putin for two days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 13 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said: Seems a bit farfetched but it's the Wall Street Journal rather than the National Inquirer: I'd question if all 92 SPG's were in fact 'howitzers'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Putin looks decent for 70 tbf. Good plastic surgery. Hopefully he doesn’t want a nuclear war for his birthday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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vikingTON Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 'Yanukovich caused the Maidan Revolution' is quite the junk Twitter hot take even by this time in the morning. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Sleepy Joe's off the cuff remarks sure will be seized upon for a while. The auld duffer needs a constant leash. Meanwhile: Quote Paul Stronski, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ,told the BBC that Russia's "destabilising rhetoric" is aimed at deterring the West, even though the West appears resolved to push back on it. There has also been some pushback against Moscow's nuclear threats in Russia itself. An editorial in the country's mainstream Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper was heavily critical of "senior Russian officials" for "talking about the nuclear button". "To allow, in thoughts and words, the possibility of a nuclear conflict is a sure step to allowing it in reality." Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman told reporters on Thursday that Moscow had not changed its position that nuclear war "must never be waged". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 I assume MAD theory still trumps all and no one will actually go nuclear? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 11 minutes ago, Ross. said: I assume MAD theory still trumps all and no one will actually go nuclear? I read a book a while back on the history of wargaming, and apparently since the advent of nuclear weapons even in a simulated scenario it's very difficult to get people to make the psychological jump to go nuclear regardless of what factors you surprise them with. Of course, that's assuming there are rational actors on both sides. Russia is so centralised though that it would probably have more to lose in a limited nuclear exchange. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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