America had no motive to blow up the pipeline. Putin had motives because the price of natural gas was declining due to Germany filling up its storage and a hurricane was in the Gulf and so this was the last chance to juice the price after Gazprom made windfall profits supplying less gas in the first half of 2021. Also higher natural gas prices inflict more pain on the average European which could lead to leaders being replaced that don’t support Ukraine.
America had no motive to blow up the pipeline. Putin had motives because the price of natural gas was declining due to Germany filling up its storage and a hurricane was in the Gulf and so this was the last chance to juice the price after Gazprom made windfall profits supplying less gas in the first half of 2021. Also higher natural gas prices inflict more pain on the average European which could lead to leaders being replaced that don’t support Ukraine.