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Matthew Dalton: It looks like a very large jacuzzi in the Baltic Sea. It's just kind of bubbling like a big whirlpool of bubbles in the middle of the ocean.Matthew Dalton: Denmark and Sweden noticed that there were very large methane leaks coming out of the Baltic Sea. Matthew Dalton: They're meant to withstand gas at very high pressure, to move along more than 700 miles from Russia to the German coast. So yeah, it's not something that's going to just spring a leak easily. It seemed quite clear that this was due to an explosive device. The Danish officials, I've been told, estimated the size of each explosion at about the equivalent of 500 kilograms of TNT.
Matthew Dalton: So they've been trying like hell to buy gas from any other supplier. So that includes buying a lot more gas from Norway, which is its friendly petro state to the north. And they've been relying a lot more on liquified natural gas shipped from the United States, that has been key to supplying Europe without Russia. Without that, Europe would be in big trouble.
Matthew Dalton: It says that not only do they want to substantively not sell gas to Europe, but they also want to send the message that it's over, that it's not just we're not selling you gas anymore. We're turning off the spigot. It's also, we're not going to be able to sell you gas.Kate Linebaugh: As the energy war between Moscow and Europe escalates, so has the military war in Ukraine. That's coming up.
Matthew Dalton: Well, Ukraine, among other things, condemned it and said it would be applying to join NATO. Which is something that has been kind of at the heart of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine for the past decade.Matthew Dalton: The reaction of the West is to condemn it universally.
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