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>Well... did it affect anything with the pipeline? Yes. The US has been threatening sanctions on Russian businesses to stop the pipeline since 2019. The US fin
by trefoiled 5y ago
>Well... did it affect anything with the pipeline?
Yes. The US has been threatening sanctions on Russian businesses to stop the pipeline since 2019. The US finally issued the sanctions on ships involved in the construction, using the poisoning explicitly as a justification.[1]
A great deal of pressure was placed on Germany by the US to cancel it completely due to the poisoning, despite the several billion euros of investment already made by the country. The German government did not give in to the pressure.[2]
[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/19/russias-gazprom-says-nord-stream-2-at-risk-after-us-sanctions https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/19/russias-gazprom-...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-politics-laschet-exclusive/exclusive-navalny-affair-no-grounds-to-cancel-nord-stream-pipeline-new-german-cdu-chief-says-idUSKBN2A51FL https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-politics-laschet-...
Edit: The US did not explicitly sanction entities involved in the construction of the pipeline because of Navalny, I got that mixed up with a European parliament push to do so. [3]
[3] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210119IPR95904/parliament-demands-significantly-tighter-eu-sanctions-against-russia https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210119IP...