Who Really Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline? With Bojan Pancevski
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mir Sorenti. In September 2022, a series of underwater explosions tore through the Nord Stream pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea. The destruction of this $20 billion pipeline severed a major artery of Russian gas supplies to Europe. disrupted economies and triggered a manhunt that strained relations within the NATO alliance.
Despite capturing the imagination of millions, the mystery of who blew up the pipeline has so far gone unsolved. Could it have been the CIA, or part of the shadow war between Russia and the West? Could Putin himself have been behind it? On today's episode Bojan Panchewski, chief European political correspondent at the Wall Street Journal, joins Hannah Lucinda Smith to discuss his new book, The Nord Stream Conspiracy, the inside story of the explosions that shook the world, and his investigation into a mystery that continues to reverberate through international politics.
Let's join our host, Hannah Lucinda Smith, now with more. Bojan Panchewski, welcome to Intelligence Squared. And congratulations on the Nord Stream Conspiracy. It's really both a great work of journalism and research, but also a really, really cracking read. This is a book that reads like a thriller.
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