After Saki I had to shoot down the nonsense that it was drones or Special Forces.

After Kerch I had to shoot down the nonsense that it was a truck or boat bomb.

Now with #Nordstream I have to shoot down the nonsense that it was an explosive filled Pipeline Inspection Gauge
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aka a PIG.

PIGs are pushed through pipelines by the flow of oil or gas. Nord stream 2 pipe A was filled with gas from 4 to 18 October 2021, but gas never flowed to Germany. So the russians would have had to insert the explosive PIG in October 2021... with a fuze set for 11

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months later... and if the Germans had accept gas from Nord Stream 2 in those 11 months the explosive filled PIG would have arrived at the German end of the pipeline... with only russia as possible culprit.

Nord stream 1 had flow until 31 August 2022. So russia could have

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inserted one of the three types of PIG (calibration, cleaning, inspection) 4-10 days earlier... but the three pigs weigh 1.5, 1.8 respectively 7.3 tons and so their remains would be visible in or near the destroyed pipeline.

In short: explosive filled PIG = nonsense.

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And on 2 October 2019 Steinmeier tried to force Ukraine to submit to all of putin's demands about its future and Donbas.
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An artillery thread with too many videos 🧵:

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Fertilizer doesn't explode.

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Ammonium nitrate doesn't explode either.

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