Its ridiculous Putin could just close pipeline at will. The MSM really think we are that stupid.
They were already shut down before this. The Germans refused to certify Nordstrom 2, and the Russians have claimed there were mechanicals difficulties with Nordstream one so they'd shut that down. So both were not in operation, and there was no time table for either of them to be opened.
So there weren't any more cards left for Russia in to play.
The U.S. has no shortage of stupid people.