Why blow it up when all you have to do is turn off a few valves?
because Russia was legally on the hook, thru freely-signed contracts, to keep supplying gas
but Russia didn’t want to help Europe thru the winter
by blowing up the pipeline, they get to deny Europe gas for the winter, and claim they can’t do anything about it
plus, they get their useful idiots to blame the US for the sabotage they did ... trifecta!!
Exactly. You can’t trust anybody anymore.
contracts prevented that
See comments above and below, and on other posts since it happened - cause dissension and pain for the west, freeze the greenies in Europe...
But it had to have been Biden and Democrats and the CIA. (eyeroll)
Logic and reason is from Mars to some here on this issue
To create dissension among the countries supplying material to Ukraine.
Russian already had a deal to sell the natural gas to China that would have gone to Europe.
Why not take advantage of Biden’s stupidity to make the US look bad?
Next month it will be that the Chinese did it.
Why blow it up when the ability to offer cheap gas during a frigid winter could turn all of Europe against Ukraine, and make them side with you?
The people running the West and destroying the United States with migration and rigged elections are no longer the good guys.
Blowing up the pipeline (an act of war) allows Russia to default on loan payments without consequence.