Hello everyone,
Welcome to my latest podcast Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard! On September 26, it will be the two-year anniversary of the Nordstream 2 pipeline explosion, the strategic undersea gas pipeline in the Baltic that once delivered Russian gas to Germany.
Two years after the attack it remains a mystery as to who was behind this explosion with a lot of finger-pointing at both Russia and Ukraine. While the investigation is ongoing, new media reports have surfaced intensifying the controversy surrounding the attack.
Joining me to share new insight on the explosion is Dr. Benjamin Schmitt a former energy analyst at the US State Department who is one of the leading experts in the United States on Russian energy security. "Dr. Schmitt is currently a Senior Fellow with a joint academic appointment at the University of Pennsylvania in both the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. He is also an associate of the Harvard-Ukrainian Research Institute and an affiliate of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
In this podcast, Ben will be reviewing the mystery surrounding the Nordstream attack, having recently returned from a trip to the Baltic, where he conducted extensive field research, to get to the bottom of who blew up Nordstream II.
Episode 5: Who Blew up Nordstream 2? A Conversation with Dr. Benjamin Schmitt