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 "I'm guessing you didn't even know that Russia had already shut down Nordstream "indefinitely" a month before it was blown up. It wasn't being used anyway. "

yeah, that pipe was empty... https://image.nostr.build/63238918ec4d717128ecd86b8c0a8c5aa0492a8774432c06d9f7760eb26030db.gif

 https://image.nostr.build/c1e1242a5fb9d5600700ca456a048742ba67cc434eea0d1a89088b686e89ddea.gif 
 It may have had residual gas, but you can check and verify that Russia first cut throughput by half in June, and then shit it off completely in August, blaming it on sanctions making it difficult to get parts, but more likely doing it to punish Germany for sanctions.
Seriously, just look things up before you post. It's not hard.