Use your head. That pipeline was a source of both foreign revenue and diplomatic/economic leverage for the Russians. What would they gain by blowing it up?
That pipeline was source of gas cheaper than they could get elsewhere for the Germans. What would they gain from blowing it up?
Russian internal politics be crazy. People can get assassinated over shady income streams, nevermind war politics and attempts to interfere in them on account of some oligarch's sweet deal.
Blowing shit up is absolutely within the realm of possibility there.
And that's just one option.
And what's most suspicious, they didn't blow up all the lines.
Russia could export gas to Europe through one of the idle Nord Stream 2 pipelines that was the only of Nord Stream's four lines still capable of working following , analysts said on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com
Definitely looks like a warning to someone, but one meant not to go too far, that is if that was intended.
If it was USA motivated by really cutting the gas line, there's no fucking reason for them to leave one going, of all potential culprits they have the resources to make absolutely sure.
If it was Ukraine, then one could at least use the limitations of a barely possible, covert, small scale operation with limited and deniable resources to excuse missing one line because charges failed or something.
But for the Americans? Specifically, for the sociopathic globalists of the Biden administration?
By blowing up the pipeline, they deprive Russia of that income and leverage. They also harm the economy of Germany, thereby weakening the whole EU relative to the USA. And they want the EU to be politically and economically subordinate to the USA.
Sorry, i live too close to Russia to consider complaining about "sociopathic globalists" in USA but ignore "we have globalism at home" in form of Russian imperial ambitions.
I'm also not a EU patriot, i don't know where you got that idea, perhaps the same bullshit sources that absolutely do want to incite conflict between EU supporters and USA for Russia's benefit mostly, so here you have the trail of where that line came from and who wants it spread over the internet where you probably read it. Considering what EU wants to do with its strength to its members, it would be good for them for it to be weaker.
But hey, those arguments work better when thrown at actual leftist-technocrat EU federalists who want to make the whole EU live exactly the way they want and then get into an ego contest with American globalists for hegemony because they think they know better how everyone should live than those too, you should try it with those.
Don't blow smoke about some mystery Russian faction that you have no other evidence of.
We have no other evidence that Russia is a country united in own national interests either, yet your exclusion of it from list of potential culprits demands exactly that.
The Russian leader has a record of weaponising fuel supplies and believes his people can endure economic pain longer than western Europe
www.telegraph.co.uk
And they only put out the cover story of ''rogue Ukrainian elite agent team'' after Seymour Hersh wrote how US did it, proving him right in the process.
Love it how some "right wingers" are willing to take
big name leftist journo scum at their word, but only when they join in on simping for Putin-senpai.