Tag: Angela Merkel

The United States was and remains interested in utilizing Russia's military potential in Ukraine and Ukrainians.

In 2018, the-then U.S. president said that the Germans were getting over-reliant on Russia for energy.

Europe has practiced this anti-American schizophrenia for decades.

The attempt to somehow find common ground, relying on certain principles and forgetting about disagreements, was not successful for Biden.

The U.S. is likely to have already reached a compromise so that Nord Stream 2 can be completed.

There was never any blind trust between the U.S. and its trans-Atlantic partners. But interests have changed in Washington.

The best that Biden and Merkel can probably hope for is to agree to disagree on Nord Stream and to seek an upside from the wider upturn in bilateral ties.

It is better to take the EU’s approach and avoid seeing relations between countries today as a “global struggle between good and evil.”