Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

Then POTUS himself publicly announced he'd blow up NS. After it was blown up, we suddenly don't know who did it ;(

I didn't know dementia is so contagious.

There are about half a dozen actors with an interest in doing it. It's like an Agatha Christie murder mystery. My favourite as a Brit was Ukraine with tech assistance from the British navy, as alleged by Moscow.

Biden never announced that he would blow up Nord Stream 2. What he said in effect, in a press conference after Germany grudgingly agreed to prevent Nord Stream 2 from going online if Russia were to escalate its actions in Ukraine, was essentially "it's not going to go online" and giving a vague "it won't" answer when the questioner pointed out what if Germany disagreed, since it was Germany's call in the matter after all.

A month or so later, Russia launched the 2022 offensive against Ukraine, and there was no longer any question of NS2 entering service because it was clear to all that the preconditions for Germany's rescission of approval for the pipeline had been satisfied. With that context, Biden's answer is best understood as him being quite confident in the quality of US intelligence that Russia was planning an imminent invasion of Ukraine that Europe was assessing as faulty. So while Europe was interested in the question of "what if Russia doesn't invade Ukraine?" Biden's answer was (in not so many words) "I'm not contemplating that scenario."

tbf if frost damages a crop Moscow will blame the British, they're obsessed with you lol.