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Eight most shocking revelations from the Nord Stream sabotage plot
2024-08-25
BLUF:
[Washington Examiner] According to one officer involved in the operation and three people familiar with it, speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky originally approved of the operation. Valery Zaluzhny, then the commander in chief of the armed forces, was in charge of it.
"Shocking" to some possibly.
However, in June 2022, the Dutch intelligence agency MIVD learned of the plot and tipped off the CIA. After approaching Zelensky, he decided to call the operation off. According to those familiar with the situation, Zaluzhny ignored the order and pressed onward.

After the operation, Zelensky reportedly angrily approached Zaluzhny. The military chief shrugged it off, suggesting that he had called it off too late.

"He was told it’s like a torpedo — once you fire it at the enemy, you can’t pull it back again, it just keeps going until it goes ’boom,’" a person familiar with the conversation said.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  Blowing up your business would certainly count as force majeure.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus   2024-08-25 18:49  

#5  Hydrate Plugs Rantburg 10/03/2022.

Searching the 'Burg is easy!
Posted by: Bobby   2024-08-25 11:59  

#4  ^ #2 Gazprom needed to create a Force Majeure condition

At the time of the original break, there was a credible theory that the operator could have damaged the line with sloppy maintenance and operation of one or more "pigs'.

I still like that better. No divers required.
Posted by: Bobby   2024-08-25 11:54  

#3  When Russia and Ukraine split, they split soviet black sea fleet. Ukraine, eventually, sold their part for metal.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-08-25 11:02  

#2  In another scenario tendered at one point, Gazprom (majority owner of Nordtream 2) was under contract with several European countries to provide natural gas in specified quantities and at specified prices. After Germany suspended certification of the Nordsteam 2 pipeline in February 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine, Gazprom could not fulfill its contractual obligations for NG delivery through it but also could not invoke 'Force Majeure' (which would relieve parties to a contract of performance of their contractual obligations in the event of an occurrence outside the control of the parties such as natural disasters, war, terrorism, government actions, riots and strikes) under international trade laws. These being as follows:

#1 - the Ukraine 'Special Military Operation' was not classified as a war by Russia (Gazprom's headquarters and NG delivery source country), so that condition didn't exist within the trade laws.

#2 - It was Germany's 'government action' that stopped the NG flow, not Russia's (again, Gazprom's NG origination point).

#3 - There was no 'Civil Unrest' or 'Terrorism' in Russia at the time.

Gazprom needed to create a Force Majeure condition, without making it seem as if the Russian government was involved in any way, in order to vacate their existing contracts.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2024-08-25 08:49  

#1  After approaching Zelensky, he decided to call the operation off.

Or so he says.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-08-25 07:42  

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