It causes a lot of uncertainty, which does benefit Russia. And it did not elinimate their capacity to sell gas to Germany. Of course there is much less capacity

It causes a lot of uncertainty, which does benefit Russia. And it did not elinimate their capacity to sell gas to Germany. Of course there is much less capacity now in total, but NS2 was never even used so far and there is no way that Germany would buy that much gas from Russia again that the reduced capacity would be an issue. If Russia were able to break the coalition of countries supporting Ukraine it would benefit enormously. I'm not seeing them succeeding in that, but that doesn't mean they're not trying it.