The Russians Blew Up Their Own Pipeline
The off-ramps to this intractable conflict are closing. The next phase of this terrible war is underway.
By Brandon J. Weichert
October 5, 2022
Another mystery in the already bizarre Russo-Ukraine War has unfolded. The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines that link Russian natural gas to Germany and the rest of Europe via the Baltic Sea suffered several mysterious, underwater detonations at key points. It is a horrific ecological disaster. What’s more, the mystery surrounding it has sparked a raging debate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Who did this? As with so many mysteries, we must first ask, “Cui bono?”
Some Theories Some observers, such as Stephen Bryen and his wife, Shoshana, speculate that it might have been poor Russian management of the pipeline—a workplace accident, in other words—that caused the problem. After all, Russia is the same country that brought us such disasters as Chernobyl. Since we do not know for certain what has occurred (and likely never will), it’s easy to theorize about what may have happened.
Members of the New Right, such as Tucker Carlson, argue that it had to have been U.S. intelligence, acting in conjunction with European allies, such as Poland, Denmark, or Sweden (or all of them). The former right-wing Polish Prime Minister, Radek Sikorski, who rarely agrees with Tucker Carlson or the New Right, publicly applauded on Twitter what he claimed was a covert U.S. intelligence operation to destroy the pipeline. Interestingly, Sikorski deleted the tweet soon thereafter. Meanwhile, social media accounts have started sharing strange tidbits of information related to covert U.S. Navy movements in the Baltic Sea that might underscore this bizarre claim.
Still others I know in Europe and who share affiliations with Europe’s right-leaning political parties insist that only a secret NATO operation could carry out such an act. Why, they ask with incredulity, would the Russians blow up their own pipeline?
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