It will remain unanswered, as it did when I asked. Conspiracy fantasists do not have consistent narratives. They bounce around the perimeters of consistent narratives by making up fantasies to JAQoff at. The goal is to maintain the illusion of being important by having
The JAIC doesn't discuss the captain BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO INFORMATION ABOUT HIS ACTIONS. The report, unlike you, does not deal in speculation. They could guess, and so can most of the reasonable people posting on this thread, but speculation is a waste of time. And they know the cause of the sinking, and the captain was a contributing factor, but in the end it was Estonia's design flaws. Some reports will hypothesize ON TECHNICAL ISSUES because there is paraphernal data, and historical data to draw upon.
No. There is nobody here who can answer. Vixen does not support the conspiracy theories.
Vixen's theory is that the Russians sank the Estonia because it was being used to smuggle Soviet military gear. And the Swedes covered it up to prevent Russia from invading the country of Estonia.
You are not helping your argument. Seriously, how fast do you think this POS goes? The Russians don't use it to sneak up on moving vessels. I doubt they could use it in the kind of weather that sank the Estonia. The US Navy couldn't launch ours in such weather, and it doesn't chase down moving vessels.
Is it me or does nobody notice how the FSB deals with this kind of thing in real life? How many corrupt and or inept Russian generals have "Fallen out the window of a high building" over the years? How many went for a walk and never returned? They stopped doing show-trials after Gorbachev. They're not sinking a ferry. They track the seller and the buyer down, and do their thing.
Vixen thinks that because the sinking started at the "stroke of Swedish midnight" (it didn't) and happened roughly at the halfway point of its journey, this implies military precision and a deliberate message by the Russians as to who was responsible. Does this kind of cryptic nonsense sound like anything the Russians actually get up to?
Dont forget the radioactive gunk that ate the bow door away...
A ferry tale, as it were.
Very phunny lol
This is obviously nonsense. How credible is it that the authorities had no interest in the captain and the bridge crew? Think about it. No mention of it in the JAIC Report clearly means it was deemed 'not for public eyes'.
Heaven help Einstein, Marie Curie or Stephen Hawking had they ever lived to come onto this list.
They'd be redirected to the General Skepticism and the Paranormal subforum, where discussion of ghosts belongs.
Oh, and 10 points for each name, I think, for point 15. https://t5k.org/notes/crackpot.html
Whoosh!
It is factual and recorded in the Swedish Riksdag [_sp?] that the passenger ferry had been used for military smuggling (= that can only mean Soviet stuff to the west) in the same month as the MS Estonia disaster. The downfall of the former USSR was sealed 1991 and under the Potsdam Agreement the Soviets were supposed to get the hell out of the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) as well as their other Eastern bloc satellite countries. Whilst it might have been a time of glasnost under Yeltsin, there were still significant tensions. The Soviets didn't get out of Estonia until 1995. It still has a sizeable Russian ethnic population. I was there recently and just about every restaurant has the menu not only in the native language and English, but also in Russian. I noticed the same thing in Gdansk (or at least at their airport). So, given the combination of Eiseln, a US born ethnic Estonian shipped in from the USA as the then Estonian military leader, together with Clinton and Bildt with strong CIA links, it is easy to see why some feared political sabotage or mafia type retribution. Both Andresson and Piht were Russian-trained (albeit not known as former Communist Party members). Especially as the M/S Estonia was the eponymous flagship of Estlines.
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