Right now there's still natural gas that's flowing through ukraine into western europe. The fear is, once the second pipe line opens, that a lot of that gas will now go through that direct route. And russia has one less excuse if it wants to cause havoc in their neighbor o cas o, a big conflict. But germany continues to defend this project as a commercial project. It's all about commerce. It's natural gas. Don't worry about it.
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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