News reports suggest that Berlin and Washington are reaching an agreement on a Nord Stream 2 deal that would greatly increase Kremlin control over gas supplies to Europe. Joe Biden campaigned as a foreign policy master who would work hard to contain the dangers coming from rogue Kremlin policies. At that time, he correctly termed Nord Stream 2, the Russian Gazprom gas pipeline project under the Baltic Sea to Germany, “a bad deal,” and Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised in confirmation testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to work to stop the project.
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People working at the Nord Stream 2 gas line landfall facility in Lubmin, north eastern Germany, is seen through a metal pipe on Sept. 7, 2020.