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Originally Posted by Itse
Yeah I just can't agree.
It only makes sense in retrospect, but when you look at it from before this event and ask "what can we blow up or destroy that will signal our ability to do this", why pick Nordstream? It's so damned valuable to Russia.
Blow up a couple of those seized superyachts for example, they're spectacular targets.
There are probably thousands of other options. And why blow up both pipes, if the point was to demonstrate ability? Wouldn't just blowing up one of the two pipes achieved all the same things?
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The point of blowing up Nordstream is simple, it was paid for more by Germany than Russia, Nordstream is not a Russian pipe really, it's a German pipe, it was a message to Germany and Germany alone.
Russia has plenty of ways of getting gas to Europe if sanctions are lifted but in Putins mind the only way to do that is to scare Germany into submission and blowing up the only gas lines that were paid for by Germany to get gas solely to Germany are a great way to do that, Putin knows full well if things go back to 'normal' Germany will rebuild the pipeline, not Russia, Germany.
Where Putin is wrong obviously is the idea that things can and will return to normal ever, but he's desperate and losing