The argument for killing Nordstream is weak: Russia sells the gas anyway. Nordstream is an alternative that was needed because the Ukrainians wanted too much money for the transfer, and because the Ukrainians endangered the flow of gas by refusing to maintain the pipelines.
Closing Nordstream has the same reason as closing Keystone: It forces energy intensive industry to move into China (where cheap Russian energy awaits them). It's not about Russia but part of the "green" new world order.
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