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Pretty much everyone could have done this for various reasons.

Here are ones that make russia possible:

• Russia already turned off Nord Stream 1 for different reasons. One was the repair of a turbine despite having a spare one at home, other times they turned it of because of not getting western money due to sanctions.

• Attacking their own pipeline does NOT bring the NATO article 5 out, so its pretty safe

• They still have pipelines through poland and ukraine that have enough capacity to get europe through the winter. If europe is willing

• It stirs chaos among europoors, accusations right and left

• Its a message that they can attack Norwegian gas pipes that were completed recently in the same vicinity.

• Its a message that they could attack in escalation all kind of underwater cables and pipes. Getting Europe of the internet to america, getting important energy grids underwater down so black outs are possible. All kind of gas pipes down. They could "nuke" europe without a bomb

@pizzashill

Edit: Ohh look! Russia is already threatening the other pipes!

https://twitter.com/GazpromEN/status/1575021274878791680

bad-faith behavior

LMAO

They should be scared we own them. I'm glad we are finally teaching the europoors a lesson.