President Zelensky approved the plan, then tried unsuccessfully to call it off
International incidents rarely play out like Hollywood action films — and when they do, the public usually doesn’t get to hear about it. But every once in a while, some journalist goes out and digs up the kind of story that Steven King might conjure up.
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy investigative piece on the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage mystery. For those Americans who may have forgotten, in September 2022, an unknown someone set off an explosive that ruptured the twin pipelines usually used to pump natural gas from Russia to Europe. The result was that, on the eve of winter, Europe was faced with a potential energy crisis, and they weren’t happy about it.
