[EugeneG]

After Russian invasion of Ukraine, Germany said it permanently won’t support the opening of Nord Stream 2. NS2 has been Putin’s number one priority for opening so he could deliver gas to Europe while sidestepping Ukraine.

Conveniently after the explosions, NS2 became one of the few working ways to get gas to Europe, and Putin offered to deliver gas via it. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2022/10/12/putin-offers-t...

That’s way he blew up what he blew up. To force Europe’s hand on NS2.

[pydry]

All NS2 does is double NS1's capacity. It hampers Russia's ability to bypass Eastern Europe to have NS1 blown up.

I can think of at least three parties for whom this would be convenient. All of them publicly objected to NS2 and and none of them are Russia.

[Someone]

Half of NordStream 2 was blown up, too. Sloppy sabotage or brilliant misdirection? I wouldn’t know.