Hacktivists or state actors attacking the SCADA systems and increasing the pressure to levels that it's not built to handle?
The russian government itself doing that to make it appear someone else did it?
The russian government itself doing that to make it appear someone else did it?
Such an overpressure would have been detected (and in the worst case, mitigated by flaring or outright venting) at the German entry points of NordStream 1 and 2. No anomalies were recorded, which completely debunks that theory.
Causing it to fail, with the seismic signature that coincided with the failure? Impossible.
Does that government have any power? Or we can always substitute for correctness "Russian gov" with "Putin" and "Russian interests" with "Putin ambitions"
This is Putin playing power games. He wants so strike fear in the German public and cause public support for aiding Ukraine to falter.
By failing to correctly attribute the actor behind this act of terror and spreading conspiracy theories you are only playing to the hand of that war-mongering dictator.