The repair time isn’t the issue.
It’s an escalation and new front. Now infrastructure targets are legitimate targets.
It’s hybrid war. A Kremlin specialty. Putin will just keep making a bigger and bigger mess until he wins. At least that is the plan.
Nordstream pipeline repair etc. not so crucial for Germany getting Russian gaz————
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-only-needed-nord-stream-pipeline-blackmail-war-eu-official-1746851
Sikorski followed that tweet with another criticizing Russia, claiming that the pipelines were unnecessary and only served to give Russian President Vladimir Putin leverage in a potential war in Eastern Europe. While unclear from his tweets, it is appears that the leader’s message of thanks to the U.S. may have been legitimate, given his sharp critique of Russia that followed.
“BTW, there’s no shortage of pipeline capacity for taking gas from Russia to Western Europe, including Germany,” Sikorski added. “Nordstream’s only logic was for Putin to be able to blackmail or wage war on Eastern Europe with impunity. All Ukrainian and Baltic sea states have opposed Nordstream’s construction for 20 years. Now $20 billion of scrap metal lies at the bottom of the sea, another cost to Russia of its criminal decision to invade Ukraine.”
“Now infrastructure targets are legitimate targets.”
Like the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas was.