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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Russia needs Germany to suffer, so the populace changes their mind about high energy prices vs supporting Ukraine, but without Russia to blame. A rupture can be fixed and gas flows resumed (and it's important it takes a while). Russia can't just turn it off, because the German citizens could just rely on the fact that he's not a reliable partner. Blow up the line and Germany gets forced to see what happens over the next month when gas prices get completely unaffordable (as if they weren't already). It's a "see what would happen if we turned it off?" strategy
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Russia turned off the gas in Nord Stream 1 about three weeks ago.