“A Small European Nation Has a Big Explosions Problem,” a New York Times story recently reported. The story clarified that the small nation was the Netherlands, it never did clarify who was behind the over 700 bombings so far this year. Saying it out loud would have been impolite.

European nations, small and great, have all sorts of mysterious unexplained problems that they never used to before. The Netherlands has a rash of bombings. In the UK, acid attacks are up 75%. Much like the bombings in the Netherlands, none of the news stories clarify why a phenomenon associated with a whole other part of the world had migrated to the UK.

“Sweden’s new normal: Bombs in the suburbs on a weeknight,” Politico reported in 2023. This January, there were 30 bombings. An Economist story blamed the attacks on “teens”. Sweden’s National Police Commissioner Petra Lundh warned that 14-year-olds are being recruited for “murder assignments” by gangs and foreign countries. Which teens? Which countries?