The Biden administration is choosing not to sanction the Russian company and its CEO that is running the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project that will connect Russia to Germany.
The State Department was required by a bill tucked into the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act to submit a list to Congress of individuals and entities involved in Nord Stream 2 who are engaging in “sanctionable activity.” The people and companies on the list are supposed to be hit with sanctions.
The Biden administration is waiving sanctions for the company Nord Stream 2 AG and its CEO, Matthias Warning, although it is sanctioning four Russian ships and four Russian entities involved in the project. The pipeline is said to be 95 percent done, and without sanctions on Nord Stream AG, it is expected to be completed.
The Biden administration’s decision was likely more about mending ties with Germany that were strained during the Trump years rather than easing up pressure on Moscow. Regardless, Russia hawks in Congress are not happy with the sanctions waiver.
“Stunning. In defiance of US law, Biden is actively helping Putin build his pipeline,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who led the effort to get the Nord Stream bill included in the NDAA, wrote on Twitter.
The original Nord Stream consists of two lines that run from Vyborg, Russia, to Lubmin, Germany, near Greifswald. The new project would add two more lines, doubling the amount of natural gas Russia could export to Germany. Ukraine stands to lose up to $3 billion a year in gas transportation fees if the pipeline is complete, one of the reasons so many in Washington are opposed to it.
Seems like pipe lines are a little like arteries and veins, one gets clogged or springs a leak, that’s bad news for our existence. So Biden sent the right message regarding “sanctions”. If we mess with someone else’s pipe line what’s to stop others from doing the same to us, you know the negative consequences of the Golden Rule?. Maybe there is hope for Biden.
I don’t give Biden a bit of credit on this issue. Win or lose on the “blocking”, the US was infuriating Germany. And it would have probably been a “lose”, so he (or his puppeteers) cut their losses and pretended to take the high road.
Biden needs to pardon Assange and put strings on our No.1 Welfare Queen to stop her genocide for me to even consider him part human. What a journey he has made from being the workingmans friend 2 Zionist stooge. I wonder if video of him having the wrong kind, or should I say the wrong age of fun explains strange change. On that topic I wonder if we will ever see a reappearence o Jeffrey Epstein
No, no, no! There is a special Rule that says Thou shalt not do to the United States what the United States has a right to do to others.
It beggars beliefe the EU Elite have stood for this blatant interfering in European energy policy , what are the EU elite scared of ? , america taking it`s military bases out of Europe perhaps ? , which for my money would be a good thing , as for Ukraine everything that has happened is entirely of their own making , i hope once the pipe line is completed Russia closes the transit pipe line in ukraine if they do Ukraine can thank america / EU for it.