US had the clearest motive of all since destroying the pipelines meant not only that they could increase their control of the gas market and as you said, secure transshipment through Ukraine and Poland, but by doing so they also eliminated any possibility or pretense of Germany and Russia resuming their economic collaboration. The US had motives and plans to blow up Nordstream well before it happened. Biden said as such in Feb 2022 before Russia’s SMO/invasion even began.
The bombing also forced Germany and the EU to deepen their dependency on the US and severely damaged German industry. Any benefits that accrued to Poland and Ukraine also accrued to the US. Also, US naval vessels were operating in the immediate area of the bombing, and were conducting underwater “training” exercises in the week leading up to the bombing. The US had the motive, means, and expertise to pull off the bombing. It should be obvious the USA did it.
Lol, what? Are they including the USA as an autocratic regime? Because no country is a greater purveyor of hybrid warfare than the United States and its empire’s appendages like NATO. Anyone with a passing knowledge of the CIA and state department’s history and strategy understands this. Recent examples include the Nordstream bombing, the Maidan coup, grooming and installing al-Julani in Syria, and propaganda like MI6 using Russia panic to try to scare up some consent for mass militarization of the UK and EU, or hell, even this white paper from Estonia.
It’s mainly the world’s hegemon that uses hybrid strategies precisely because its targeted nations struggle to respond “directly and proportionally.” Would Israel and the US have been so “brave” to proliferate the explosive pagers throughout Lebanon if Hezbollah were able to strike back directly and proportionally? Also, what’s “direct and proportional” about using Israel as a proxy to perpetuate a decades-long regime of destabilization in West Asia, including the most egregious and blatant genocide in my lifetime on the Palestinians? Believing Russia or China are anywhere near being world leaders in hybrid warfare is utterly farcical clown shit, what a joke.