A man cycles past gas pipes bound for the Russian pipe laying vessel Akademik Cherskiy (behind) that is moored in the port of Mukran near Sassnitz on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen, north eastern Germany, on Sept. 7, 2020, as it waits to continue pipe laying works for the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline.
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The United States has blundered. Europeans should not over-react.