It would also be beyond dicey to pull off some proportional response (like the U.S.-Iran exchange over Soleimani) unless it's clear the U.S. did it. That's at least half the reason to keep it secret.
At that point any response on Russia's part would have just played in to NATO's war mongering. If it could be shown to be Russian action then you'd have the "mystery" of the nordstream 2 but look over hear Putler attacked X! If it couldn't be shown to be russian action then as far as the public is concerned that's just two mysteries, and the US just proved to Russia and the EU that it's more than willing to destroy it's own allies and take direct unprovoked attacks against a nuclear power just for chump change so you can't really out-crazy that.
Yeah as mentioned in the article, Sweden has the capability to detect this kind of behaviour with advanced radar and sonar. It's how they keep finding Russian submarines in their waters. So they definitely knew about what the US, Norway and Denmark were up to, and most likely have the "smoking gun" in terms of evidence. But they won't release it because of obvious reasons (NATO membership).
Russia has no reason to respond to an event which benefits them.
Germany is now a vassal state of the USA because they have no access to raw materials to do anything. Russia is plenty happy to sell their nat gas to other countries and let germany's industrial capacity evaporate.
From Russia's POV, the long con is the de-industrialization of Germany, and that was just accomplished. Germany was forced to choose a side by the USA; buy our nat-gas or else.
Treating it like a tech demo, I guess?
what "response" were they expecting, an ICBM launch? doesn't make sense to me.
It would also be beyond dicey to pull off some proportional response (like the U.S.-Iran exchange over Soleimani) unless it's clear the U.S. did it. That's at least half the reason to keep it secret.
secret is the wrong word. it was kept plausibly deniable
At that point any response on Russia's part would have just played in to NATO's war mongering. If it could be shown to be Russian action then you'd have the "mystery" of the nordstream 2 but look over hear Putler attacked X! If it couldn't be shown to be russian action then as far as the public is concerned that's just two mysteries, and the US just proved to Russia and the EU that it's more than willing to destroy it's own allies and take direct unprovoked attacks against a nuclear power just for chump change so you can't really out-crazy that.
Did they ever outright accuse the US of doing the job? Can't remember myself, but he might just be referring to a statement of condemnation.
hmmm yeah, that's true. I don't think they did
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Yeah as mentioned in the article, Sweden has the capability to detect this kind of behaviour with advanced radar and sonar. It's how they keep finding Russian submarines in their waters. So they definitely knew about what the US, Norway and Denmark were up to, and most likely have the "smoking gun" in terms of evidence. But they won't release it because of obvious reasons (NATO membership).
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Have they? I can't find anything about that.
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Russia has no reason to respond to an event which benefits them.
Germany is now a vassal state of the USA because they have no access to raw materials to do anything. Russia is plenty happy to sell their nat gas to other countries and let germany's industrial capacity evaporate.
From Russia's POV, the long con is the de-industrialization of Germany, and that was just accomplished. Germany was forced to choose a side by the USA; buy our nat-gas or else.
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