Washington, D.C. is universally known as a town divided, a place where compromise and dialogue are often sacrificed at the altar of competing agendas. But on one issue, at least, there is consensus: the 764-mile Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will pump Russian natural gas into Germany is a project that must be stopped. And the United States needs to use all of the economic and diplomatic tools at its disposal to do it.
In both congressional testimony and in meetings with Nato allies, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated the official U.S. view that Nord Stream 2 is ‘a bad deal’ for Europe, a potential cash windfall for Russia, and a potential geopolitical coup for Vladimir Putin.
‘President (Joe) Biden has been very clear,’ Blinken said during his meetings in Europe last month. ‘He believes the pipeline is a bad idea, bad for Europe, bad for the United States, ultimately it is in contradiction to the EU’s own security goals.’
Already the European Union is unhappy about the rhetoric coming out of the States
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been tougher in their rhetoric, with even Biden’s own supporters urging
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