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Some believe it is the work of yankees as many European countries will have elections with far rights, oppositions, whatever will be voted in if promises of restoring the nord stream. If no longer have gas people cannot cry father cry mother in election and Europe must wean itself from Russia gas.

For Nord Stream 2, the loan from Uniper, Wintershall Dea, OMV, Engie, and Royal Dutch Shell covers 50 percent of the projected costs of €9.5 billion. The rest is being financed by Gazprom.

It is not cheap to build Nord Stream 1 & 2.

Why should Russia blow up own pipelines that generate huge revenue each year knowing its economy is in bad shape due to heavy sanctions from the west? It is like blowing up your own restaurant and lose all the income for many weeks, nobody will do that.

On the other hand, the U.S. doesn’t like Nord Stream pipelines from the beginning, destroying the pipelines will eliminate Europe’s energy dependency to Russia so that Europeans are forced to buy more LNG from the U.S..