> Who do you think had the motive to take out the pipeline ?? <
Pretty much everyone except Russia. As you noted, Russia would gain nothing by destroying its own pipeline.
Awhile back I was reading an article written by a pipeline expert. He guessed that the explosion was not caused by sabotage, but by a maintenance failure. He went into some detail about how it could happen.
I’m not saying I believe that. But it’s something to consider.
It’s possible the pipeline blew up due to a mechanical failure, it’s kind of odd the environmental wackos in Europe haven’t been all over the Russians for shotty maintenance of the pipeline which dumping an untold amount of natural gas into the Baltic Sea.