> Germany and Russia were negotiating resuming pipeline operations when Nordstream was blown up. I haven’t heard about this at the time or since. Do you have a

> Germany and Russia were negotiating resuming pipeline operations when Nordstream was blown up. I haven’t heard about this at the time or since. Do you have a source for this information? > And oh, I don’t know seems pretty obvious that Russia has ZERO motive to blow up its own 10 billion dollar pipeline. Russia is not a monolithic entity. For example if I were Putin I would fear that someone deposes me, then they makes peace with the West and they quickly resume the gas transit. By making it so the gas transit can’t be quickly resumed one also insures one’s self against such plans by lowering the possible reward of it.