Nothing about this story makes any sense to me. But hey, it added a couple of column inches to the author’s resume.
Western media is REALLY pushing this narrative, but like many have said recently, vis-a-vis the NordStream pipeline, destroying their own pipeline is just plain dumb. They had a perfectly viable mechanism to control the west, esp. Europe: they could just turn off the pipeline. Destroying it doesn’t benefit Russia in any way, not even narrative.
Now they’re talking nukes? This really does strike me as fear porn for the left. Putin is crazy, but I don’t believe he’s this crazy. Putin’s historically been strategically cunning, not off-his-rocker retarded.