See, this is an example your being irrational about this subject. There's evidence of US ships in the area that suddenly disappeared off the tracking sites right before this happened.
There's absolute zero motivation for Putin to sabotage the pipelines. This was clearly the US/Israel, and for the reasons stated. Germany has been hit very hard economically due to the gas shortage and were showing signs of cracking and trying to work out a deal with Russia. That had to be stopped, and so the US/Israel stopped it. Your contempt for Putin is off the charts to the point that you're not thinking clearly.
US is clearly already the bogeyman and no one in Russia is under any illusion that the US/NATO have been actively involved in Ukraine and killing Russian soldiers pretty much the entire time. If Putin really wanted a fαℓѕє fℓαg, it would be something much more dramatic than a pipeline blowing up, and then they would make sure the US got implicated instead of leaving it open to speculation. They could blow something up near the Ukrainian border and claim it was some US weapon that did it.
It's not irrational. You only have circuмstantial evidence in trying to prove your case. Germany was under no illusions about leaving NATO, like some have suggested requiring the US to intervene. Russia and Putin were in dire straits and needed a PR boost. If the US could be the perpetrator here, it would be a major boost to the Russo-Ukrainian War effort in Russia.
I could believe it was Israel helping out, actually. Clearly the war in Ukraine must continue. What couldn't be true is that innocent Russia is being terrorized by the US. If the US actually blew it up, they did it with
approval. Biden helping his friend Putin keep the war going serves the ultimate purpose of WWIII.
The US is not the bogeyman. A spectre is haunting the world---the spectre of Communism. One of its ghosts comes in the form of Communist China. Russia and China are allies, despite their softened rhetoric. When Russia is acting like this, they are doing so with Chinese approval, and Putin just had a meeting with Xi before all of the recent events leading up to the partial mobilization and this pipeline. Why does the war need to continue in Ukraine while China secretly mobilizes in the east supposedly for Taiwan?
Answer: China plans to go to war with the United States.
If this is a fαℓѕє fℓαg, then it's got to be the lamest fαℓѕє fℓαg in the history of fαℓѕє fℓαgs.
They succeeded in getting the alt-media to gobble it up once again. There are people who disagree with you even on this forum who don't have "contempt" for Putin and who can think clearly. You can believe that about me, but I already explained to you my motives. This reactionary anti-American/pro-Russian sentiment has been a goal of the alt-media propaganda and it is a trap for the Right. Biden and his friends plan to spring the trap.