"A unified Senate had successfully passed a law that, as Cruz told Blinken, “halted [the pipeline] in its tracks.”... Would Biden stand up to the Germans? Blinken said yes, but added that he had not discussed the specifics of the incoming President’s views. “I know his strong conviction that this is a bad idea, the Nord Stream 2,” he said. “I know that he would have us use every persuasive tool that we have to convince our friends and partners, including Germany, not to move forward with it.”"
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Seymour Hersh, https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream "How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline"] (February 8, 2023), Substack
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