> Definitely not Russia which was using it as significant leverage over the Europeans. There's still one pipe of NS2 left unscathed; Russia had offered to star

> Definitely not Russia which was using it as significant leverage over the Europeans. There's still one pipe of NS2 left unscathed; Russia had offered to start delivering gas over this pipe, prior to the winter turning out to be incredibly mild. So the potential leverage is still there, and would perhaps have been useful had the climate cooperated. Maybe Russia took out three of four pipes just to ratchet up the sense of risk to Europe.