Russia warned that they were going to do this last week. I think it's pretty reasonable to conclude that 1) this was sabotage and 2) it was Russia.
Source?
I guess they warned in their own way, of "nice cables you've got there, it would be a shame if someone... sabotaged them".
We have it. It's almost 100%. They've been threatening WWIII and nuclear armageddon since 2022.
In my experience, the problem is also that one group of people refuses to act on what the other side actually says (because it’s inconvenient/dangerous).
Nope. He said it would be "ended", meaning the one thing that it obviously means -- that it would be shut off.
everybody said "it was Russia"
Nope -- some people said that.
The reasonable, level-headed people said: "We just don't know yet".
People have been convicted of murder on less evidence.
When Biden said that he was talking next to the person with the power to legally shut it off, the German chancellor. If he and Biden were in agreement on that point, that Nord Stream would be shut off if Russia invaded Ukraine, why did Biden say that explicitly but not Scholz, even after being asked directly by the journalists present? If they were not in agreement on that point, how could Biden promise that they would put an end to it?
> The reasonable, level-headed people said: "We just don't know yet".
Agreed.
Typical politician nonsense.
None of which means he was intending, or suggesting the idea of actually blowing it up.
It does not, and you're misreading the one sentence in the article where that word appears.