Funny, now they're saying it was Ukraine but before the immortal Sy Hersh (praise his blessed name and kiss his feet) wrote an article that everyone said was ABSOLUTE PROOF that is was the USA/CIA specifically. I personally think it was Russia. Ukraine gained nothing from it and USA/CIA gained nothing from it. Zelensky gained nothing from it. Western Europe lost big from it. The only party that actually gained from it was Russia themselves, in terms of sentiment against the USA entering the war. If that sounds far-fetched then consider that the damage to the pipeline was $500M, while the war itself has cost both sides many HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS. If Russia wins they gain a large amount of vitally-important terrority, while if they lose they may cease to be a nation. $500M was an incredibly small price to pay to temporarily damage a pipeline they weren't going to be using for a long time anyway. Consider that the damage from 9/11 is said to be in the trillions. It would be stupid to think that the USA was the only country familiar with the concept of a false flag, and that this move would not have occurred to them. We all remember the propaganda campaign waged against .win right after this happened, to convince us all that Sy Hersh had "proven" the matter with his "irrefutable" article (with the same photo as OP) in which he cited anonymous sources that implicated specifically CIA operatives (and case closed, don't you dare say different), yet nothing was ever proven and here we are with Germany pushing a different theory. Ever since that article all anyone says is that the USA did it and it's established fact, but now years later we have another theory and of course people will forget how they were misled before. Whether it was Germany or Russia this sort of makes the unassailable god-figure Seymour Hershenstein look like a liar and a propaganda tool.