Strategic Infrastructure and Silent Wars: The Nord Stream Sabotage

From the very beginning, the version claiming that Europe's largest underwater gas pipeline Nord Stream was destroyed by certain "amateur saboteurs” looked, to put it mildly, highly unrealistic. Not Local Infrastructure but a Strategic Energy Artery The issue concerned not local infrastructure, but a strategic energy artery through which Germany received billions of cubic meters of gas and then redistributed it across Europe. Too many parties held a stake in both its preservation and its elimination. For that reason, almost immediately after the explosions in September 2022, an information war began. One publication after another appeared in the Western press, examining various versions of what had happened.