re: I’m Starting To Lean To The US Blowing Up Nordstream Because Of The Select Media Stories

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The Russians and Chinese did this remarkably well throughout the decades following WWII.

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The Russians no longer have that capability, but the Chinese are trying. Their initiatives haven't produced sustained results as of yet. India also signaled in 2019 that it was going to increase its FDI, but they have a complicated internal investment problem.

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But nation building aside, to deny the possibility that the US destroyed this pipeline is to deny history, logic, and sanity.

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I'm not denying the outright possibility. I'm saying that the risks for the US within the geopolitical context are so great that it would undermine in a direct way what it took great pains to build. The minimum requirement for unilateral US involvement has to at least meet the larger framework of US geopolitical interest. Europe was likely not to buy gas from Russia for too much longer regardless of this war, as there already several projects underway to circumvent Russian gas, so I'm not moved by the short-term arguments relating to Germany and Russia. In addition, the German approach of rapprochement with Russia started under Merkel has been soured so severely that I'm skeptical that relationship will ever be repaired. The sea-change in German military policy is a signal to that. Lastly, Europe has been attempting to prepare for this winter by storing as much gas as possible, as I don't believe Nordstream 2 even entered into service at all and thus was not factored in to the change in European energy policy broadly. The gain for the US doesn't seem worth the massive risk.