America has a long list of ways to prevent Nord stream 2. The lightest-touch efforts were working in the leadup to the war - Germany was not going to certify the project under diplomatic pressure. And then after the war, it's clearly off the table. There was no risk to America of NS2 suddenly being switched on, in January or yesterday.

America has other means apart from diplomatic pressure. They could have sanctioned the gasprom entity on the sending end and they could have tried to get gasprombank off of SWIFT. Both would also kill the project.

America had a long long list of ways it could have chosen. Today's conspiracy theory from the ruzzia's shills is that America chose to skip the successful diplomacy and move straight to terrorism.

Which nation fucks around on the seafloor. Which nation benefits most blowing up NS1. Which nation has a detailed storied history of terrorism. Which nation deployed it's shills today to blame America, including their permanent secretary to the UN? The same nation for all of these things.

To be honest, OP, I don't think even you believe it was America, or any of the retards upvoting you. I think you know well that this was the terrorist ruzzia, but you just enjoy posting their Z-prop for the fun of trolling. Well, whatever then, but it was definitely the ruzzia who did it