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The United States is able to stop the Nord Stream-2 project at the very last moment, which is at the final stage of construction and will open closer to mid-September, The New York Times reports. This will depend on the outcome of Joe Biden’s meeting with Vladimir Zelensky, who will arrive in the United States on September 1.
“It should be a good meeting, but there will be a “big elephant” in the room — “Nord Stream-2”, – the author of the article emphasizes. It is noted that if Zelensky asks Biden to disrupt the commissioning of the pipeline, the United States can take such a step. This is due to the fact that there may not be another chance – there are only a few kilometers of pipes left to complete the construction.
Ukraine will lose billions of dollars if the Nord Stream-2 starts working. “All that will be required to completely stop the pipeline is for the Biden administration to change its recent refusal on additional sanctions against Nord Stream-2,” the article notes.
At the same time, the author of the article completely ignores the decline in confidence in the United States after such a step, because Biden signed an agreement with Merkel in the summer, pledging not to interfere with the completion of the construction of the gas pipeline. Washington and Berlin have also provided for the possibility of imposing sanctions if Moscow uses the Nord Stream-2 as a “weapon” against Ukraine.