Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by Jonah Goldberg and David

French. We are going to talk about the Nord Stream pipeline. We'll talk about what we're seeing in

the midterms and a little popery per usual with a sprinkle of not worth your time at the end.

David I'll start with you. Why don't you tell us what has happened with the Nord Stream pipeline

and what we're supposed to take from that? Well, it's pretty simple really what's happened and

super complicated about what we're supposed to take from it. So there's been obvious leaks sprung

in the Nord Stream pipeline probably or almost certainly as a result of sabotage.

The Nord Stream pipelines are venting natural gas. I mean, there are huge, I'm sure a lot of

a lot of listeners have seen online images of bubbles, huge circles of bubbles in the ocean

where the Nord Stream pipeline is venting natural gas. So that's the simple part. Nord Stream

pipeline almost certainly vandalized almost certainly vandalized with explosives.

Unusable at the moment will cost a lot to repair. Now, what are the consequences of that?

Well, this is where there's some obvious and then there's some more subtle. So the obvious is that

there's been a lot of talk about an energy crisis or the gas weapon being utilized against Europe

this winter. Well, right now, right there, because of the broken Nord Stream pipeline,

we know that Europe is going to face an energy crunch. Even if it wanted a whole ton of Russian gas,

the Nord Stream pipeline was a key wave delivering that gas. So we're going to see an energy crunch

in Europe this winter. And there's now a huge fight over who might have done it. There are some

folks on the right, Charlie Kirk, Attaka Carlson, who, Rod Dreyer, who are basically taking the

position of, I think it's America. I think the US blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. They don't

have any evidence for this. They're just trying to line incentives that it sort of removes the

temptation for Europe to go soft on Russia. We have no evidence, the United States did it. No evidence

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