When pipeline politics go boom
We may never know who sabotaged Nordstream 2. But it wasn’t the first, nor likely the last casualty of such fierce geopolitical conflict.
Stephen Kinzer was the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua from 1983 to 1989 and is the author of “Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua.” He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.
We may never know who sabotaged Nordstream 2. But it wasn’t the first, nor likely the last casualty of such fierce geopolitical conflict.
The Global South is not intimidated and has increasingly refused to ally with the West on sanctions and condemnations.
The 17-year Nicaraguan president is now jailing his election opposition and rivals, many of them fellow ex-Sandinistas, now in their 70s.