America first.
Merkel, a proud graduate of the University of Karl Marx.
Sucks to be you, Bumdestag.
Why is the United State Senate getting entangled in foreign infrastructure projects? What Russia and Germany do, is between Russia and Germany.
What stake does the United States have in this at all?
Is it going through our territory?
So, Merkel is colluding with the Russians, go figure, eh.
Regardless of how one feels about Putin, Russia or the EU’s energy relations with them, Micro-management of foreign countries’ and 3rd Party overseas commercial dealings is bound to fail, hurt American business, and simply make the USA look tyrannical and petty.
We could kick Germany out of NATO. But, of course, the Real reason for NATO is not to kepp Russia out of Europe, but to keep Germany from starting another war. I’m not sure that worked - the E.U. Exists.
Nordstream I and II will make Germany into the transit hub and broker for a massive flow of Russian natural gas. For Germany, this offers to be both immensely profitable and strategically opportune with a German-Russian alliance to displace NATO and tether Germany and the EU to Russia. America cannot accept such a development without alarm because it upends the NATO alliance and the strategic calculus that has preserved the peace since World War II.