Shane Harris on the Nord Stream 2 Bombing
The Lawfare Podcast
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Why Is It Crazy to Think That This Could Have Been a US Operation?
CNN's John Defterios says he has a hard time believing that Joe Biden would authorize an operation to blow up two pipelines as much as the two US administrations have opposed their construction. "I can't see this particular administration at least doing it, considering that it has been so conservative in the actions that it's taken so far" The U.S. is blowing up a pipeline, releasing huge amounts of gas into the atmosphere and hurting Russia but also blaming them on Russian President Vladimir Putin. It helps Ukraine and puts Germany in the position of forcing it to break this relationship with the kind of us politics relationships that Nord Stream always represented.
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