'Big implications for both sides,' former NATO school department director and energy expert Phillip Cornell told Newsweek.
has explicitly blamed the attack on an"Anglo-Saxon" plot, further raising the stakes.
Three leaks first detected Monday—and a fourth reported Thursday—along the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, both inactive yet containing gas at the time, have spiraled into an international incident, with all eyes on the ongoing tensions between the West and Russia over Moscow's war in Ukraine.
Cornell, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center and a fellow at the Colorado School of Mines' Payne Institute, also made reference to an earlier statement published Tuesday by the European Council, which warned that"any deliberate disruption of European energy infrastructure is utterly unacceptable and will be met with a robust and united response."
After German Ambassador to the U.S. Emily Haber asserted Wednesday that"everything points to an act of sabotage" and that Berlin was in close contact with allies, a German official emphasized this message toRussian officials had openly floated suspicions that the incident might be the work of saboteurs, specifically those aligned with a foreign government.
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