Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses, may have made a recent reappearance in the depths of international politics and energy infrastructure. The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, designed to carry natural gas from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea, became the focus of geopolitical tensions when they were mysteriously damaged by underwater explosions in September 2022. As well as disrupting energy supplies, the incident sparked a complex web of accusations and investigations across several countries.



Various US Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft, operated by European nations, have captured the attention of investigators around the world, adding to the saga of the NordStream pipelines. Reports from various sources, including flight tracking data and media analysis, indicate that a Poseidon aircraft was operating in the vicinity of the NordStream pipelines at the time of the explosions, leading to much further speculation about the events.

Around 2021, Norway had purchased five brand new Poseidon P8 aircraft, the first of which was delivered to Norway in February 2022. Along with the arrival of the new anti-submarine P8s in the far north of Norway, the so-called "Quick Reaction Alert" (QRA) mission, a state of air defense readiness maintained by NATO air forces at all hours of the day, was moved from Bodø to Evenes Air Base as well.


During BALTOPS-22 in the Baltic Sea from June 5 to June 17, 2022, many Poseidon P8 aircraft from Italy, Iceland, the U.S., and also from Norway would participate in the military exercise and cross the Nord Stream pipelines several times. On June 10, 2022, a Poseidon P8 from the Italian U.S. Air Base Sigonella, after a short stop in Nordholz near Bremerhaven, would briefly circle the second NordStream explosion site northeast of Bornholm with its identification transponder turned off. Two days later, on June 12, 2022, another U.S. Poseidon P8 aircraft flew from Keflavik in Iceland to the exact same position of the second NordStream pipeline explosion site northeast of Bornholm, circled the ocean position for some time in an odd manner, then refueled near Roneby in Sweden before returning back to Iceland. This Poseidon from Iceland did the exact similar flight from Keflavik inspecting the explosion site northeast of Bornholm in the days before on June 8 and 9, as well as on June 14, 2022. Another P8 flew a similar route on June 11, 2022.

The P8 flight patterns over the pipeline explosion sites continued after the BALTOPS-22 exercise. On 21, 23, 24 and 25 September 2022, only a few days before the pipeline explosions, additional US P8 Poseidon aircraft were over the Baltic Sea. These P8 Poseidons would fly at low altitudes for a while as they approached Bornholm, then climb to 11000 feet at almost exactly around 3am.



On September 26, 2022, the day of the pipeline explosions, another unknown P8 Poseidon aircraft, most likely from Iceland or northern Norway, circled the second explosion site northeast of Bornholm a few hours after the first NordStream explosion was recorded southeast of Bornholm at about 2 am. Coming from the north, this P8 first flew to Poland for in-flight refueling before circling rather suspiciously at about 4 am over the second explosion site northeast of Bornholm which exploded many hours later. It continued east somehow along the pipeline route before returning to Norway or Iceland. The plane's transponder was also turned off, additional identification tags were encrypted to conceal its identity.

What's more, months after the end of the BALTOPS-22 military exercise in the Baltic Sea in June 2022, one of the largest fleets of the U.S. military around the USS Kearsarge, along with the USS Gunston and USS Arlington grouped under the PHIBRON 6 squadron, conducted additional exercises in the Gulf of Gdansk, not far from the gas pipeline explosion sites. Coincidentally or not, the Marines aboard the USS Kearnsarge and others were still conducting exercises in the Baltic Sea during the NordStream explosion month of September 2022. Four days before the first explosions on September 26, 2022, the entire naval fleet with 40 helicopters and planes could be seen from the eastern shore of the German Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn, heading back west toward the Atlantic Ocean. The US fleet was apparently ordered to leave the Baltics either because they were involved in something big in the making, or because they did not want to be part of what was about to happen, it seems. According to well-informed sources, there must have been some internal discrepancies among various NATO nations, with Norway possibly blowing the whistle on what was to occur in a few days in the Baltic Sea.



A few weeks earlier, Liz Truss was surprisingly appointed Prime Minister of the UK, at about the same time as the military exercise with the USS Kearsarge began in the Baltic Sea on September 3, 2022 with over 40 ships. A good week earlier, a new German ambassador, who had previously held various NATO posts and served as political director of the German Ministry of Defense, was welcomed in Oslo. Not only would Germany be replacing its ambassador to Norway, but the other two nations, Iceland and Italy, from which all of the aforementioned P8 Poseidon aircraft had taken off in the preceding months, would also be presenting their brand-new ambassadors on August 25, 2022.

About three weeks after welcoming the three new key ambassadors in Oslo, the Norwegian prime minister and his defense minister traveled to Norfolk, Virginia. Not to show up at the White House and sit with the US president, but to visit the US Navy's 2nd Fleet and NATO's operational command centre there. On September 19, 2022, the two Norwegian heads of state would meet with the US Secretary of the Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, partly out at sea near Norfolk. The following day, the Norwegian Prime Minister would have a face-to-face meeting with Mitch McConnell and then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, other high-level meetings with the two Norwegians at the Pentagon would also take place that day.

It is very likely that Norway's two most senior politicians were sharing their intelligence on what was going on in the Baltics, while possibly also wanting to be in a safe place in case Russia was about to retaliate for what was in the making. Vladimir Putin announced a special mobilisation for Ukraine at exactly the same time, and warned several times of "fierce retaliation if the West uses weapons of mass destruction against Russia", often mentioning the UK in particular. On September 21, 2022, UK's Prime Minister Liz Truss would address the UN General Assembly and mentioned, quote: "We are cutting off the toxic power and pipelines from authoritarian regimes and strengthening our energy resilience". Norway meanwhile would be raising its maritime security level and deploy drones to its oil refinery platforms, while Sweden begins that day with various military surveillance flights over the future NordStream explosion sites. The USS Kearsarge fleet pulls back from the Baltics and a direct line of communication between Washington, DC and Moscow was established, as was confirmed by U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan himself.


Poseidon clearly had a lot of visitors in September 2022 in the Baltic Sea. Some of them must have planted very effective and powerful explosives near the pipeline. This is also critical for the insurance companies, some of which went to court in London in April 2024 and refused to pay the Swiss company NordStream compensation in the amount of 400 million dollars. In 2023, investigative journalists took part in an excursion to the explosion sites, an underwater vehicle took pictures directly from the pipelines and revealed some additional mysteries. The water was apparently murky, and clear pictures were difficult to take in the turbulent mud. A complete, publicly available video of all three major explosion sites appears to be unavailable to this day. In particular, the question remains as to why the bombs were placed at two locations in the Baltic Sea where the water is relatively deep. Divers would have had a much easier time at several other, much shallower pipeline locations. Also puzzling is why one fourth bomb site appears to have been falsely placed with little to no effect.



The answer to at least some of these open questions may come from a very scientific look at the various issues surrounding the explosions and their aftermath. A Swiss scientist has dared to conduct an exhaustive, independent scientific investigation of the explosion amplitudes and more. Dr. Hans Benjamin Braun, until recently a professor of physics from Switzerland with more than 120 scientific publications, including in Nature, his work having been cited over 3600 times, came up with a number of revelations concerning the NordStream pipeline explosions that are almost too bombastic to believe.


When examining the magnitudes of earthquake-like explosions at various locations around the Baltic Sea countries and as far away as Greenland, the original Richter scale magnitudes should be scaled up, according to Dr. Braun. While in nearby Sweden the magnitude was reported to be only 1.8 or 2.3, the average calculated magnitude from many locations around the Baltic Sea is about 3.9. Using the more likely magnitude of about 5.2 as measured in Greenland, the amount of TNT required would be several hundred thousand kilograms. This is an insanely far cry from the 100 to 700 kg of TNT that most mainstream Mockingbird outlets have claimed caused the earthquake's magnitude. Moreover, the recorded earthquake amplitude graphs are much more reminiscent of those caused by nuclear explosions than to those caused by regular TNT bombs. It is highly unlikely that the gas itself would have exploded in the surrounding ocean water once it was exposed; that would require much more sophisticated arrangements.



The Swiss physicist claims that a small thermonuclear bomb must have been used to cause the explosions. Small nuclear bombs can range from a few kilotons of TNT to several megatons. Once ignited, these bombs cause a nuclear reaction that results in effective destruction, depending on the size of the thermonuclear bomb. Not only the earthquake magnitudes, but also the fine but measurable radioactive traces in the clouds over the explosion site(s) a few hours later, when the gases had reached the ocean surface, indicate such a device.

The seafloor temperatures increased dramatically following the months of the explosion, which could have been an effect of a thermonuclear explosion as well. In addition, a nearby Swedish U-shaped coastline to the northwest with a very step seafloor caused the NordStream explosion's energy oscillations in the water and in the seabed to be reflected, then redirected and amplified with massive waves directly onto the shores of Kaliningrad, which is part of Russia. The amplitude graphs from Suwalki for the Kaliningrad coast prove this exactly, which would answer the question of the explosion sites in rather deep Baltic Sea waters, apart from reasons of difficulty of repair.



There, in Russia, a kind of Poseidon's twin brother was invented some time ago. The Kremlin in Moscow is not shying away from promoting a newly made Poseidon weapon that Russian submarines can carry. Once deployed in the ocean, it can create a tsunami wave of tremendous destructive power. Russia goes so far as to explain in various reports and verbal wars that it would be able to flood more or less all of Great Britain with its submarine Poseidon weapon.


Much like the ancient Greek myths of Poseidon, who, according to legend, lost his patronage over Athens but managed to send a monstrous flood to punish the Athenians for not choosing him.

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