Satellite image showing the Nord Stream 2 support vessels being escorted by Russian Navy Warships. Credit Frank Bottema, imagery from Sentinel Hub
Naval News: Russian Navy Warships Are Escorting Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Vessels In Bay Of Biscay
Russia’s controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is enjoying a naval escort. The undersea pipeline will be built in the Baltic between Russia and Germany. Two offshore supply vessels involved in the project are currently being escorted. They are accompanied by a Project 1155 Udaloy-I Class destroyer and a Project 22160 patrol ship. At the time of writing the ships are currently 40 nautical miles southwest of Brest, France.
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) analyst Frank Bottema (Twitter) spotted the vessels in a Sentinel satellite image from Yesterday. They are just visible through a gap in the cloud. The vessels’s progress can also be tracked on other forms of OSINT.
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WNU Editor: The naval escort is an eye-opener. I guess the Russians have concerns that the US may seize their ships.
Wouldn't seizing the ships be an act of war? Why would the US fo this? Of course the thinking might be that any government who is irrational and stupid enough to invent things like "bountie," "collision," and to impose sanctions unjustly on Russians over a myth of "election interference" has no limits in stupidity or irrationality. As such, those precautions may seem sensible. Also, of even greater concern to them is president Trump who is generally rational may have lost control of the situation and may be unable to keep unstable elements in check.
ReplyDeleteThe Germans who want this project may have the same thought processes. The US is a declining largely has been world power that probably won't even exist in five years. More likely than not either it's internal strife rips it apart or it's enemies finish it off. Also, while the US does have major energy reserves, it could be taken over by environmental enthusiasts who will block most drilling making it an unreliable partner.
In contrast, Russia is stable, is a major world power, has been for centuries, and will continue to be a major world power for the foreseeable future. Additionally Russia is much closer geographically than America. All in all I can see why this makes sense for Germany to pursue this. IF this is the thinking on the part of German leaders, can we PLEASE FINALLY withdraw our forces and once and for all cut ties with NATO once and for all?!!?
I pray my analysis on America's future isn't this bleak.
Seizing the vessels would be an act og war against both our "ally" Germany. I think everyone knows this. Sending military escorts is not necessary but it does communicate to outside observers the importance of the project. Maybe this means we can finally redeploy our military personnel who are in Germany. This would be a good thing. We would be able to deploy them in ways that actually make sense fir our security needs.
ReplyDeleteThen US should seize "merkel" instead. They can send her to GITMO where she could go on a diet and maybe her arteries to her brain would open up and higher cognitive thought would restart.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe the US could dish dirt on her or enough of her coterie that the CDU ousts her.
After Fukushima her energy policy was crap. then her immigration policy was crap. She is not a smart woman. She is emo.
ReplyDeleteCom'on poster. What would Russia be without nukes of various kinds? Not my idea of a major power when push comes to shove as the Wagner boys found out last year in the mid east.
Merkel for sure is a traitor to Germany and our American friends. Isn't it ironic how she joined the leftist media chorus in calling Trump complicit with Russia but then signs this MASSIVE oil deal with Russia at a time when the US could have offered the oil/ gas as well?
ReplyDeleteWhat Putin has on Metkel is anyone's guess but no European leader has been worse to the stability of the EU project which was put in place to prevent was in Europe. It wasn't just for trade or power. It was to bring Europeans closer together.
Merkel is cited as number one reason - together with her now infamous and failed immigration policy (not a policy but basically unchecked immigration for 1mn people that brought things or rape crime and yes looting to Germany)
What does Putin have on her? She says Trump works for Russia. The left media tells us Trump works for Russia.
The reality is this: she and left media and leftist activist groups are destabilising Europe and the United states.
Now ask yourself who really works for China?
CNN+MSNBC+NYTIMES+WAPO made hundreds of millions!(!) Of dollar through China's ad and editorial campaigns
The leftist run universities in Europe and the US are funded by the billions by China now to change how we think. How we speak. They change our culture and history.
But we're told Trump is the traitor.
Right.
It's 101 deflection.
THEY ARE THE TRAITORS
People forget 2011.
ReplyDeleteThe Greeks have no love for Merkel.
Extradite her to Greece.
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