Bombing the Bridge

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/breaking_news/article-11293851/Massive-explosion-destroys-key-bridge-linking-Crimea-Putins-Russia.html#v-779763836208198570

I don’t think it was Ukraine who blew up the Russian bridge.

The bridge is beyond the range of any known Ukrainian missiles. Although they might have been given some we do not know about.

The Russians say it was a truck bomb. But the damage seems far greater than one would expect from a truck bomb.

Using a truck bomb on a long bridge would almost have to be a suicide mission. You can’t park it on the bridge and walk away.

Absurdly, the Russians claim to have interviewed the driver of the truck, who says he had no idea his truck was full of explosives.

If this was the driver of a truck that exploded, so powerfully it destroyed a modern bridge, and he had no idea it was going to blow up, how is he alive to tell the tale?

It is also hard to believe the Russians do not have scanners to check all traffic for bombs. That would be pretty negligent.

I have seen some stills from just before the detonation that seem to show wave action under the bridge just before the explosion.

It could have been a long range missile fired by the Americans; or more likely something fired from below by the Americans (or British, or French) from a submarine. Or a mine planted by a submarine, then detonated—even the same technology, perhaps, as was used on the Nordstream pipelines. That would explain the waves before the explosion, and it is more plausible that such a direct hit from a great distance by a missile. If you wanted to take a strong new bridge out, it would be the more reliable option.

It seems to me significant that the Ukrainians are not taking responsibility. Why wouldn‘t they, if they had done it? I have heard the suggestion that they wouldn’t want to because this is an attack on Russian territory. But it is not. This is Ukrainian territory, according to Ukraine. And Ukraine has already struck Crimea.

But of course, if it were the Americans, or some other Western power, they would not want to take responsibility; this would be an act of war against Russia. Russia would have to respond.

It would also not be in Russia’s interest to blame the Americans. They do not want to have to go to war with NATO. Just as they have not directly accused the US of hitting Nordstream. The truck bomb thesis seems a good face-saving option.