The opinion this is cheap talk might be a shitty one?
Gas line works fine for years, suddenly during regional conflict it goes tits up?
A dying country whose leadership seems intent on putting it out of its misery sending its potential fathers to a meat grinder, a history of stupid big picture choices, angry at the world for not letting it conquer it might partake in environmental sabotage.
It’s a lot less on the nose than nukes; if we can’t have imperialist nation state, no one can!
The holocaust is proof of human indifference to each other’s existence. What do a bunch of old turds care about intentional environmental destruction?