The Russian foreign minister said Thursday the U.S. was directly involved in the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea.
, a Texas Republican, about whether the Russian invasion of Ukraine could have been prevented if the U.S. had passed sanctions against the new Nord Stream 2 pipeline, carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany, in January of last year.Nord StreamHer comment clearly meant that the Biden administration was pleased that the $11 billion Russian-owned pipeline—which the U.S. had opposed for years on the grounds that it increased European reliance on Russian energy—is not being used.
Neither Cruz nor Nuland mentioned the September sabotage and Nuland has previously used the phrase"hunk of metal" to describe the idle pipeline. In a January 2022article—before the Russian invasion and the pipeline leaks—Nuland refers to Nord Stream 2 as"currently a hunk of metal on the bottom of the ocean.
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