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Who Blew Up Nord Stream? The Yacht Story, CIA Questions & Ukraine’s Political Crisis
Who blew up Nord Stream—and why does the official story keep changing?
On this August 20, 2026 edition of *International Flavor*, Samuel Trapp examines the competing accounts of the most consequential act of infrastructure sabotage in modern Europe. German authorities point toward a small Ukrainian sailing-yacht team and recently pursued another alleged participant. A new book questions whether that operation could have been executed as described. Seymour Hersh has offered a sharply different account involving a U.S.-Norwegian operation. None of those narratives is treated here as settled…
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