‘I would think that you would notice that you’re dragging an anchor behind you for hundreds of kilometers,’ says minister.

BRUSSELS — As the investigation into damage to Baltic Sea critical infrastructure continues, Finland’s Minister of European Affairs Anders Adlercreutz said it’s hard to believe sabotage to the undersea gas pipeline was accidental — or that it happened without Beijing’s knowledge.

“I’m not the sea captain. But I would think that you would notice that you’re dragging an anchor behind you for hundreds of kilometers,” Adlercreutz said in an interview Thursday in Brussels. “I think everything indicates that it was intentional. But of course, so far, nobody has admitted to it.”

  • FuglyDuckEnglish
    31•1 year ago

    So… despite all the seriousness, I have to ask. The name of the ship is NewNew Polar Bear?

    What happened to the New Polar Bear? And the Polar Bear?

    • @[email protected]English
      16•1 year ago

      So, I can’t easily find the name of the ship in Chinese, but it could possibly be a translation error during naming? New New is xīng xīng in pingying (romanized phonetic Chinese), which is also the same spelling as star… If whoever did the translation was bad at it and did it solely off of the phonetics or romanized spelling.

      • FuglyDuckEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        so… it’s Star Polar Bear? Huh. There goes a good joke. thanks for the information.

        • @quindracoEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          No, it’s Newnew.

          Or… well, on the ship itself it’s spelled New New, which is a lot saner and funnier than Newnew.

          • FuglyDuckEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            So I guess we know who used Google translate?

    • @TheOgreChefEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      If they also had a penchant for dragging anchors for hundreds of kilometers, I think we can make a few educated guesses as to their fate.