"It seems fairly obvious that Russia had little to gain from blowing up its own gas pipelines to Europe" The best argument I heard is, that russia has a long t

"It seems fairly obvious that Russia had little to gain from blowing up its own gas pipelines to Europe" The best argument I heard is, that russia has a long term legal binding contract with germany to deliver cheap gas. Not delivering means more economical damage in the shape as absurd as this whole charade sounds. So blowing it up means not being legally responsible for not fulfilling the contract. Did they do it? I don't know. What I do know, is that so far the investigation is not really transparent and I have not seen clear proof of anything, except that it was a really big explosive.