The real question is whether it's Cyrillic or Latin.

I vote latin: https://youtu.be/OS4O8rGRLf8?t=95

Well clear winner of current sitaution is US, clear loser is Europe/EU and Russia is somewhere in between, but they can sell their gas elsewhere, so what would be point sabotaging own business (though it could be false flag attack).

No, the winner here is clearly Russia.

They wanted to cut the line to pressure the EU into pressuring Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire along existing battle lines.

Cutting production through an "accident" allows them plausible deniability to cut Europe's gas supplies without formally violating the contract and for restoration negotiations if the Ukraine question is settled.

They already had created an "accident" and the gas in Nord Stream 1 was shut off since 31st of August.

Even if that wasn't enough, why would they choose to damage the lines this severely (flooding them with sea water)?

Perhaps to force EU to lessen the sanctions, which are also hitting the gas pipeline operator companies?

They can still supply gas through the Ukraine/POland pipeline (Yamal/Brotherhood).

And I don't think cutting these pipelines changes really anything, they were hardly delivering anything at all, so just destroying pipelines won't really help them plus even if EU caved they can't supply gas because the pipeline is damaged, if they were really relying on nord stream.

Supposedly 350 million dollars worth of gas were lost from nord stream 2. Doesn't seem worth it for a false flag. Plus it eliminates a carrot Russia had for Germany. People need to start thinking critically...

Why then is Russia still pumping gas through a broken pipeline, poisoning the environment of European countries ?

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1576975332510298112

Imagine if it was arabic (to keep the LNG prices up, which everyone in Europe is now buying from the middle east like crazy). That would surely stir some things up.

The last weird assumption like that the west did about middle east was the Iraqi WMD. Look how accurate and disastrous this turns out to be. But yes let's think outside the box.

> Imagine if

> assumption

K.

so much for being covert, they aren't too great their job.

You want it to be overt without being explicit, if it looked like an accident it wouldn't be threatening.

How would you blow up a pipeline without anyone noticing?

If there was a 1-month delay between the explosions, the people claiming it was coordinated would look a lot less credible. Particularly with the presence of large numbers of people with stakes in the outcome who will argue that the reality that makes them happiest is real.

If nobody notices, did you really blow up the pipeline?