In two thousand 19 under the trump administration, congress passed a bill that would have basically sanctioned some of the folks who were building, constructing the north stream twoo pipe line because they saw it as a security threat. And during the byden administration, germany and the us reached a deal to basically wave those sanctions. It was also an attempt for biden, who was ying to rebuild relationships with his european allies,. To give germany a bone. Worst possible outcome, from our perspective, would be a physical completion of the pipe line.
The US is negotiating to stop Russia from invading Ukraine, but a Germany-backed natural gas project complicates things.
This episode was produced by Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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