They love letting the west know they can "touch" us while maintaining plausible deniability...
Also, it's not the only pipeline to Europe... And the US could have pressured EU allies into not purchasing Russian gas regardless of what Russia did.
It makes no sense for Russia to destroy the only carrot it has for Europe.
While it makes perfect sense for the US to do this.
The US position and and influence over Europe strengthens while the opposite holds for Russia.
So who do you think did it?
> While it makes perfect sense for the US to do this.
As I said, people who think things like this haven't paid attention to Russia at all.
Also, as I said, the US can pressure allies into refusing Russian gas; pipeline or no pipeline.
Those with independent minds won’t suspend reason just because “Mikeb85” said it twice on hackernews.
> They love letting the west know they can "touch" us while maintaining plausible deniability...
This is just a feeling of self-importance having a crossover with years of typical boogeyman narratives.
Reality doesn't function that way, nobody will be losing sleep and precious resources just for the kicks and to stick it to the westerners, without any substantial gain - let's keep it sane and reasonable.
> Also, it's not the only pipeline to Europe...
And? Please be specific, it's impossible to guess what someone is imagining and implying.
> And the US could have pressured EU allies into not purchasing Russian gas regardless of what Russia did.
Not sure what you mean. They tried and failed. Not that they tried too hard - it would have been impossible anyway. NordStream pipelines weren't even the biggest carriers of Russian gas to Europe.
Blowing up its own pipeline that cost billions and years to build, effectively weakening its strategic position and limiting bargain options with Europe?
Yeah, sure.