NS2 never entering service was settled for good over 200 days ago.
NS1 has been shut down by Russia, but it was at best dubious before this whether it would ever be used operationally again.
Clearly, whoever has attacked these pipelines knew perfectly well that the story about Russia being unwilling to sell gas was nonsense, and also knew perfectly well that European sanctions would collapse in the face of rotating blackouts. Apparently someone very powerful cares more about fucking Russia than fucking Europeans.
The protests were made up of AfD supporters and Russian/Serbian immigrants, and the the only politicians saying it needs to be opened are from the AfD.
They are not representative of German public and political sentiments.
They were probably right.
Ah yeah Wagenknecht is part of the AfD now?
https://www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/schleswig-holstein/fehma...