Hi everyone,
Welcome to my 17th episode of my Eyes on Eurasia podcast, where I welcome back Dr. Benjamin Schmitt, a former guest on the program who is a noted expert on Russian energy weaponization and safeguarding Euro-Atlantic energy infrastructure.
Ben has returned to my podcast to discuss a new report he has co-written with two other authors, commissioned and published by the University of Pennsylvania. The 138-page report can be read here: Underwater Mayhem: Countering Threats to Energy and Critical Infrastructure Across the NATO Alliance and Beyond (Volume 1). You may also watch the online presentation of the report on the Atlantic Council website.
In this episode of my podcast, Ben finally gets to the bottom of what happened with the Nordstream 2 gas pipeline explosion, including Ben’s assessment of all the other underwater mayhem Moscow has been stirring up in the Baltic and elsewhere (Svalbard) since early 2022.
PS - I hope you like the pic of Ben above, which was taken of him in the Baltic scanning the horizon looking for future acts of Russian sabotage (and even lost U-boats). Anyway, I thought this fit the subject of the podcast today.
Enjoy the podcast!
Glen
Dr. Benjamin Schmitt is 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.
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