Seen as Russia's Trojan horse, capable of defeating Europe by subjugating it to the Kremlin, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is denounced in the United States, within the European Union, and in Germany itself.
• Will Nord Stream 2 ever be over?
As in a marathon or a mountain race, it is the last few meters that are the most difficult to overcome. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which is to double Russian gas exports by connecting Russia directly to Germany, across the Baltic Sea and bypassing Ukraine, is nearing completion. But the construction of the last kilometers was halted in 2019 after the introduction of extraterritorial sanctions by the United States, which has always been opposed to the project. Donald Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, tells in his book
The Piece where it happened
that the president even, in one of his verbal excesses, threatened to leave NATO in 2018 if the gas pipeline, defended body and soul by Germany and Russia,
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