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So the US who "has been the one demanding they stop existing" covertly places explosives on 3/4 pipes, and ignores the last pipe despite direct proximity to the others?

"Russia has been the one wanting all the pipelines open this whole time" Key word is "wanting", they were not getting it, Germany made is clear they were not getting it.

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So the fact that whoever blew up 3 of the 4 pipes decided not to or wasn't able to or failed to blow up the last one means they must want Russia supplying gas to Europe?

These bad faith arguments are why no one trusts the US anymore and everyone is getting on board with BRICS. The US lies and stabs you in that back no matter what.

It's highly unlikely that someone with the capacity to deploy a team to covertly sabotage a pipeline decides to back out 3/4 of the way when in they're in such close proximity, or fails and their failure is never detected (there would be failed explosives at the site).

Bad faith argument? Where does this nonsense about "everyone is getting on board with BRICS" come from? Who is "everyone"?

There are repeated rumours that failed explosives were found at the site.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/nord-stream-update-the-recovered

Holger Stark, the German investigative journalist who broke this story for Die Zeit. Stark has apparently told Hersh that “Officials in Germany, Sweden, and Denmark … decided shortly after the pipeline bombings to send teams to the site to recover the one mine that has not gone off”. He said they were too late; an American ship had sped to the site within a day or two and recovered the mine and other materials

They did however recover a smoke buoy

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/nord-stream-update-the-recovered

That's neat, why does Stark have this to say about the issue himself though?

https://twitter.com/holger_stark/status/1638561100009549829

"But this is, at least in respect to our work at @DIEZEIT, complete BS. And if you write about me: call next time before you publish."

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