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Europe used to buy a lot of natural gas from russia via these pipelines. Now that they're gone, they will have to buy from someone else. The united states has a lot of natural gas to sell them.

edit: nice stealth edit. the original comment was just "what would the motive be?" which imo is a perfectly fine question to ask. the "conspiratorial" line has me wondering though: what would a non conspiratorial theory be?

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One of the NS2 strings is still operable, and Russia is still offering to sell gas to Germany through it.

While this is true, it seems to be only incidentally true--i.e., the intent was to blow up all the pipes.

That seems like an odd offer from a nation that allegedly attempted to destroy the pipeline.

Invading Ukraine and blowing up your most lucrative export relationships also seemed pretty odd to most observers. I don't really know how to judge what's "odd" anymore.

Both pipelines were not operating for a while. They’d be helpful after the war to get gas as reparations though.

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