Analysis: Could Channel Tunnel Be Blown Up Under Water in Retaliation for West-Sponsored Crimean Bridge Attack?

The Kerch bridge is still on their mind but the payback will be a bitch.

Here’s what we wrote on the subject earlier:

Per current news reports, the Ukrainian Zelensky entity carried out another attack on the Crimean Bridge earlier today, causing serious damage and significantly frustrating its operation for the near term at least, while also killing the parents of a fourteen-year-old girl.

Though the Crimean Bridge is a civilian infrastructure project, attacks on the Crimean Bridge have been openly advocated and even encouraged by a number of both serving and retired Western politicians and media figures since the moment it was first envisaged.

Russian political figures say the early hours July 17 attack took place, if not with the direct participation of elements of the British or other culpable Western security services, then certainly with their tacit approval or even encouragement.

At this point, it would be pointless for Russia to send signals to the top doped-up figures of the Zelensky regime as they are essentially "dead men walking" and have nothing to lose, of which they are no doubt aware, and just want to take down with them as many people for company as they can, principally their own, but those from other nations too if they have a chance.

So in these circumstances, what could Russia do to ensure such acts of state sponsored terrorism don't happen again and/or to exact retaliation and punishment, should it want or be inclined to so do?

Well, creative opportunities abound.

For instance, our guest expert and some-time contributor General Sokolowski (Retd.) believes it would make sense for Russia to bypass the one-time Zelensky clown turned president and to send a note of improper behavior directly to the West, and, for starters, to the British as they are the foremost architects of this conflict even more so than the USers, that this behavior is unacceptable and must cease with immediate effect as must any further weaponry supplies to, or support for, the Zelensky regime.

Enter the Channel Tunnel, with its underwater section that took years to build, which is a comparable infrastructure facility to the Crimean Bridge but could be and is used for military purposes, such as ferrying troops and equipment, including equipment bound for Ukraine.

Suppose the underwater section of the Channel Tunnel gets blown up with a massive seabed explosive placed directly on top of it? 

The tunnels will surely be breached and then flooded with millions of tons of the filthy seawaters of the Channel.

Current thinking is it will be impossible to repair the tunnels once they are breached in this extreme fashion and completely flooded. 

It would be easier to build another tunnel in another location, but for the fact that the British and French have long lost the ability to build comparable infrastructure project due to irreversible de-industrialization, so that will be just it - the end of underwater transportation between the Continent and the Islands, for better or for worse.

General Sokolowski feels sure Russia has many devices that could do the job and penetrate only 40 meters or less of the soft clay soil once planted by, say, an unknown party on the seabed over the tunnels in a fashion similar to how the Nordstream was destroyed. 

Or something could be improvised real quick even by non-state actors.

One should not also discount the use of an underwater tactical nuclear device to achieve the same purpose with more gusto and thrilling Tsunami effects, and that could be discretely dropped from submarines or other submersibles with a delayed or timed fuse or something. Or it could even be dropped from a passing freight ship operating under a flag of convenience! Or, come to think of it, from a hired yacht!

The possibilities of retaliation are endless, and by not coming to senses soon, says Gen Sokolowski, the West is threatening to unleash on itself the processes quite beyond their control or even current understanding or anything they can imagine in their worst nightmares, although this may be just another conspiracy theory with nothing of substance to it.

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