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The point of turning off the gas is to demonstrate the point that you can turn it off *or on*. That you have control over it.

Whats the point of turning off the gas as leverage if it *stays off*? That would be no leverage at all.

A new Norway-Poland pipeline was opened one day before the NS attacks. And the attack occurred not far from it.

Showing that just switching away from Russia as a supplier is not enough to be safe, since they could just hit that one just as easily.

Pipelines can be repaired and one of the NS2 pipes was left undamaged.

As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion Russia blew up the Georgian pipeline transporting gas between the two countries once before.