The German Chancellor and Joe Biden posted their point of view on the Russian threat in Ukraine. Except for the possible spell of the North Stream 2 pipeline, for which the US president was much more directive.
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At the game of nor yes or no, Olaf Scholz would probably be excellent. He demonstrated, Monday, January 7, to the White House. Interviewed three times on what would happen to the North Stream 2 gas pipeline in the event of Ukraine’s aggression by Russia, the German Chancellor, on the move to the United States, kicked up, just say that An attack “would be expensive” and putting a point of honor not to pronounce the name of the pipeline.
At his side, Joe Biden spoke very direct. “If Russia invades Ukraine, that is, if tanks and troops cross the border thereof, there will be no northern stream 2 because we will put it end,” promised the US President about this gas pipeline connecting Russia to Germany via the Baltic, whose construction has been completed since September 2021 but has not yet entered service.
At the journalists who pointed this difference in tone, the two men assured that she was not a sign of any dissonance on the merits. “We are acting together, we are totally united and we will take the same measures” against Russia, “said Olaf Scholz, assuming to” not put on the table “the precise list of the penalties envisaged to maintain the pressure on Moscow. “Germany is one of our closest allies and we work hand in hand to avoid a Russian aggression in Europe,” said the US president. “Germany is a totally reliable partner. I have never been a doubt about Germany,” he added, emphasizing the existing “absolute confidence” between Berlin and Washington.
Germany accused of “sleep with poutine”
None of these words were chosen at random. In recent weeks, Germany has been accused by many of its allies to lack firmness against Russia. By refusing to deliver weapons to Ukraine, unlike other NATO members, she worried in Kiev but also in Warsaw and in the Baltic countries, where we fear that any sign of weakness to the Vladimir Putin nourishes his ambitions to restore the European Order of the Cold War.
In Washington too, the attitude of the Government of Olaf Scholz in the Ukrainian crisis has sparked questions. At the point that, at the end of January, the German ambassador in the United States, Emily Haber, sent a telegram alerting to Berlin on “the serious discredit” of his country in the American press as well as in Congress. According to the diplomat, Germany would be more and more qualified as “unreliable partner” in Washington, particularly by Republicans, who accuse him of “Putin” to protect his gas supplies.
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