> The German natural gas dependency is going to be the strategic blunder of the decade This has been a problem for decades, plural: > The year: 1987. The pres

> The German natural gas dependency is going to be the strategic blunder of the decade This has been a problem for decades, plural: > The year: 1987. The president: Ronald Reagan. The dilemma: What to do about the new gas pipeline that Europe was building to Russia, one of America’s key foreign policy rivals. Blinken’s first book, Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe, and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis, was published by a then-unknown young writer in 1987. But the dilemma it explores bears remarkable similarities to the challenges the Biden administration is about to face when it takes office. In fact, looking at Blinken’s analysis of U.S. foreign policy during the 1980s provides some tantalizing clues as to how he plans to guide American diplomacy if he is confirmed as Biden’s secretary of state. > The “Siberian pipeline crisis” that formed the subject of Ally Versus Ally has been forgotten by all but specialists. * https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/03/blinken-secretary-state-alliances-nato-ally-versus-ally/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/03/blinken-secretary-state... * https://archive.ph/I6Ytj https://archive.ph/I6Ytj * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhhorod_pipeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhhorod_pipeli...