In 2015, Russian energy giant Gazprom announced plans to build a second pipeline that would double the amount of Russian natural gas pumped into Germany. Now, six years later, U.S.-Ukraine relations are strained, U.S. lawmakers are fuming at U.S. President Joe Biden as well as at one another, Eastern Europeans are mad at Germany, and the U.S. State Department can’t get its ambassadors to Mexico, Algeria, or Cameroon confirmed—all thanks to the pipeline project.
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The Nord Stream 2 gas line landfall facility in Lubmin, north eastern Germany, on Sept. 7, 2020.
