Literally all you need is a couple of ounces because the second that you rupture that pipeline sympathetic reaction happens causing further damage to that pipeline ripping it apart....

I think so, too. Maybe even the right acid mixture would be enough to weaken the structure enough to get it to rip apart by itself.

Well it's a statement. And very carefully done at the very edge of a NATO country.

But by whom and why Nordstream and not the new Baltic pipeline that even crosses Nordstream at one point?

You're talking about thousands of tons of energy was released to cause a 2.3 Richter scale event.

German authorities speak of 500kg TNT.