From Newsgroup: soc.culture.magyar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhsJt8Hj-o
"It can be repaired by January next year if they start now. As as
an engineer, I was stunned to hear people say that the entire
pipeline would be scrapped because of salt-water corrosion. That
is preposterous. I researched the matter, and confirmed that the
fantastic Euro-Russian engineers (of the kind who were my
teachers) incorporated isolation valves at various intervals for
exactly such circumstances as this. This is a 1200 mile pipeline;
sooner or later a seal was going to break, a retaining bolt was
going to snap, and a leak would develop somewhere. It was
necessary to include contingency measures so that if that
happened, that section of the pipe would be isolated with valves
and repaired. If it is repaired, the pipe will not be blown up
again. As it is, by next week the whole of Europe will be livid at
"the one" who blew it up. Russia is casting itself in a very
favourable light by broaching the issue of repair. I was listening
to "Survival Lilly" on her YouTube posting from Yesterday, and she
spoke about how all space heaters are more or less gone from
Austrian stores. She talked about how people are going in the
public forest to forage for wood, even if that is illegal, when
done without permission. She pointed out that with the sabotage of
Nordstream, there are industries in both Germany and Austria that
are guaranteed to go out of business this winter. I cannot imagine
any scenario where Olaf Scholz chooses that as the outcome for the
German economy. Nordstream is not only going to be rebuilt; both
lines are going to be opened at the same time early next year...
This sabotage is going to prove to be a myopic blunder."
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