I can come up with reasons for why they did it. It's not hard, though I'd still think it unlikely that they did.
It actively punishes the west even more by preventing gas being sent through, vs before when it was merely not flowing by choice.
Second, Having to put more pipe in place would require access, which the west is currently sitting on the area, and you could pick up elint.
Third, it forces people to be paranoid about the west doing this and creates more of a pushback on being involved in ukraine, since nobody thinks this is worth it anymore (and wants to not freeze to death this winter).
Fourth, this also means they have a logical reason to sell more to China/India et al since they know they can't sell it to the west.
I can keep going, but it's not like there's not reasons for thinking russia could have done it. Do I actually think they did? Eh. Not super likely, but the US doing it also seems short sighted in some ways (yeah, we get europe relying more on us, but...then all the ukraine money shrivels up after a while, so no kickbacks for the MIC complex). Maybe we're trying to engineer the collapse of the EU, which this will likely accelerate.
No one legitimately thinks Russia did it. The only people who claim to do so are shills and npcs.
I like it when this happens because you get to see who are the sensible people and who are the NPCs/shills.
I can come up with reasons for why they did it. It's not hard, though I'd still think it unlikely that they did.
It actively punishes the west even more by preventing gas being sent through, vs before when it was merely not flowing by choice.
Second, Having to put more pipe in place would require access, which the west is currently sitting on the area, and you could pick up elint.
Third, it forces people to be paranoid about the west doing this and creates more of a pushback on being involved in ukraine, since nobody thinks this is worth it anymore (and wants to not freeze to death this winter).
Fourth, this also means they have a logical reason to sell more to China/India et al since they know they can't sell it to the west.
I can keep going, but it's not like there's not reasons for thinking russia could have done it. Do I actually think they did? Eh. Not super likely, but the US doing it also seems short sighted in some ways (yeah, we get europe relying more on us, but...then all the ukraine money shrivels up after a while, so no kickbacks for the MIC complex). Maybe we're trying to engineer the collapse of the EU, which this will likely accelerate.
No one legitimately thinks Russia did it. The only people who claim to do so are shills and npcs.