yesterday was not as clear in his commitment. he wouldn t even mention the pipeline by name. but this pipeline plays an important role in terms of the strategy for different sides here. what do you see as the u.s. role in helping germany navigate this so that this pipeline can t be leverage for putin? yeah, i think there s right now you have almost a disagreement more about tactics than strategy twhen comes to nord stream 2. the question of whether it s better to stay on the front end to putin, this is absolutely this project is going to die or to use it as the u.s. national security adviser jake sullivan said the other day, to use that as an example of sorry. that s my dog. or to use that as an example of leverage after any military incursion. and so i think it seems very clear that any further military action on the part of putin is going to lead to the cutting off of this pipeline. but that he s baked that into
in recent days. menendez says quote i think we ve hid an impasse. there has been a lot of good faith, a lot of good work, a lot of coming together but there are some final points that just seem difficult to broach even though we re still sharing creative ideas how to broach it. he added negotiations are still on but there s no secret that both sides have little different ideas about how to proceed. meanwhile, the senator said this, it is at an impasse, but there are other ways forward. he said that there are talks of introducing separate versions of the sanctions package and then having both side by side. according to menendez, the latest deadlock is over a secondary sanctions over all russian banks which could have a broader impact across europe, and how to deal with the nord stream 2 gas pipeline connecting germany and russia. there had been real bipartisan momentum on sanctions and they stalled and disappointed the process. president joe biden met with members of senate judiciary
steps to halt the process of certifying the nord stream 2 gas pipeline from russia. chancellor olaf schultz told reporters in berlin his government was taking the action in response to moscow s actions in ukraine. the pipeline has long been criticized by the u.s. and some european countries that argue it increases europe s reliance on russian energy supplies, which makes this entire situation if russia moves forward, david, with a full-scale invasion painful for everybody. that s a significant step by the german s, mika. this is what the biden administration has been wanting them to commit to. the germans have chosen to make this limited initial move of troops into the donbas the trigger for essentially ending nord stream 2. so the question is why isn t the administration doing the same.
you think the sanctions are going to be, and will holding back the harsher punishments, the harsher sanctions potentially deter far more violent aggression? first, i support 100% with the biden administration, when they announce today, and all of the other allies, especially with the germans did with nord stream 2. when there is a wrong action, there has to be a response. proud to be a punitive response, no matter what. i support it 100%. second, i am not convinced that it will change the calculus. i don t think that putin is thinking about the stock market next, week or next month, or in your from now. i think that he is thinking about his place in russian history books 30 years from now. and remember, when we are sanctioning russian individuals and companies, it is a certain segment of the economy that we are sanctioning. there is another segment of the economy, the military, industrial complex, those that pump out oil and glass that are
going to be sanctions because of our actions was already factored into the decision-making process. a revealing process came from the kremlin today when the spokesman for vladimir putin was asked what vladimir putin s reaction was to president biden s recent remarks. he said i m sorry. didn t even watch them. he was busy in a working meeting. there have been comments from the former president of russia and the russian prime minister in response to the german sanctions which have been particularly stinging, the suspension of the nord stream 2 gas pipeline from russia to germany that would individual dramatically increased the amount of natural gas russia exports to the european union.