American television host Tucker Carlson blamed the US administration for trying to sabotage the pipelines, an act of environmental terrorism. He alleged that by blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, the US is directly at war with a country with the world’s largest nuclear power plant. He further warned that there might be a counterattack by Russia.
While the US has not confirmed the sabotage, the EU’s president, Roberta Metsola, has confirmed that the leak was caused by sabotage. Before the Russia-Ukraine war, Russia, Finland, Denmark, and the UK had cited an intentional attack on the pipelines.