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Originally Posted by opendoor
I don't know, it doesn't really change anything in the short term for Germany. Nord Stream 2 was never even completed and Nord Stream 1 has been inactive for a month with no signs of gas flows restarting. So the situation you're talking about already exists.
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Well yes, blowing them up is meaningless in the short term.
That's why I think we have to assume it was blown up by someone who's thinking about potential situations in the future, and I really don't see what other reason could there be. Blowing up Nord Stream 2 is especially pointless in the short term. Why blow up something under construction? To make sure it doesn't get finished. (That pipeline was extremely close to being finished btw.) Who would finish it, potentially, other than Germany and Russia.
Let's remember, the whole point of building Nord Stream was to make pumping gas through Poland and Ukraine mostly obsolete. Those two countries have been against the project from the start, since they've been getting quite a nice income from their cut of that trade. Finishing Nord Stream 2 would have also allowed for Russia to cut gas from anyone in Eastern Europe without affecting their business with Germany.
That pipeline is all about geopolitical power, and Poland has every interest to blow up those pipes. (Same goes for Ukrainians, but I don't see them pulling an operation in the Baltic Sea right now.)
So yeah. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense that it was the Polish. Oh, and btw, US had put tough sanctions around this project during Trumps presidency, so the US hating this project goes back quite some time. Biden has also vocally been opposed to it (although softer on it economically), so there's really not much reason for US to do anything about an operation like this.