Not deterred, Trump renewed the attack via Twitter: “What good is NATO if Germany is paying Russia billions of dollars for gas and energy?” Meeting with the European Commission’s president, he promised that the United States would sell “massive” amounts of LNG to Europe. Yet around that time, in the shallow waters off Lubmin, Germany, pipes were being dropped into place for the first eighteen miles of the 840-mile underwater pipeline.7 A year and a half later, in December 2019, the $11 billion pipeline was only weeks away from completion. On December 9, Putin was in Paris to meet with German
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