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The gas was already off, so what would’ve the US exactly achieved with it, accounting for the non-trivial risk of getting caught?

as far as I know, the gas was not off; massive quantities of gas were released. I recall reading about bubbles 1km in diameter

From what I understand, the pipe was full of mostly stationary gas - it wasn’t flowing at an economically significant rate. That is effectively “off”

Pressurized with methane, now released to the atmosphere. It was actually one of the greatest ecological crimes of the century.

It depends.

Keeping the gas off.