Energy prices increased a lot since 2020:
Gas prices are 2x higher.
Heating oil is 2x higher.

Imagine you’re running a manufacturing business and your biggest variable cost (energy) doubles in price because one of your “allies” blew up your primary source of cheap energy.
Nordstream 2 sabotage was the largest act of industrial sabotage in human history and the single largest man-made CO2 emission.
Germans pretend like it never happened.

Source:
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2025/10/PD25_374_611.html

> Nord Stream 2, the Baltic Sea gas pipelines which were blown up by Ukrainian commandos in 2021
https://unherd.com/2025/10/how-nord-stream-2-has-blown-up-europe/

> Atlantic council in 2018: “Nordstream II is not essential”
https://youtu.be/Q_EiHSTmiZU