Sherlock Holmes:
“It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.”
In my earlier post on defending the West’s undersea pipelines, I noted this:
The sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines (perhaps interestingly, one of the two Nord Stream 2 pipelines — both Nord Stream 1 and 2 are twin-pipeline systems — was not damaged) has left Europeans wondering about the security of other pipelines and, for that matter, that of other undersea networks.
Click on the link attached to that “perhaps” and you’ll find a tweet by Michael Tanchum:
#Russia’s Gazprom says the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines ruptured both string A & string B of Nordstream 1 but only string A of Nordstream 2 meaning …
if #Germany wants gas , then it will have to use Nordstream2 (string B)
Today, Samuel Ramani tweets:
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak says it could supply gas to Europe via one line of Nord Stream-2 if necessary
The Nord Stream leak and Russia’s gas supply cutoffs could be a bargaining chip to revive Nord Stream-2
The whole thing’s a mystery, I tell you, a mystery.