In August 2016, then US Vice President Joe Biden stood in Stockholm and declared the Kremlin-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline project to be a “bad deal for Europe.” In doing so, Biden added vital policy leadership against Putin’s pipeline to his role as the Obama administration’s point person supporting Ukraine’s struggle against Russian aggression.
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Benjamin Schmitt: Biden must freeze Putin’s pipeline and prevent this ‘bad deal for Europe’
Gas pipes bound for the Russian pipe laying vessel Akademik Cherskiy (not in picture) that is moored in the port of Mukran near Sassnitz on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen, north eastern Germany, are pictured on Sept. 7, 2020, as the ship waits to continue pipe laying works for the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline.
