It's a funny topic.
Officially....the government of Germany had no real role in Nord Stream II (the gas pipeline through the Baltic from Russia to the coast of Germany). This was a company-to-company deal. No German government money/funding was needed. Other than the permit for the pipeline to enter the country....that was about all that was necessary.
So President Trump engaged in this whole thing, and halted the laying of the pipe. For several years....Germans grumbled and waited for President Biden to arrive, and figured he'd just undo the Trump 'hard line'.
Well....NO, that didn't happen.
So the Germans had to sit there and negotiate with Biden's team....to get the hindering business out of the way. You can laugh over the expectation that the Germans had....that just getting Trump gone....would resolve their little mess.
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