On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” State Department Spokesman Ned Price said the State Department opposes Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) push to impose sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline because sanctioning the pipeline “would undermine” the “most potent
Frustrated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters Wednesday that the European Union and Biden administration’s tactic of threatening Russia with sanctions in the event that Moscow invades Ukraine “won’t matter to anyone.”
On Wednesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Congressional Ukraine Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) stated that the U.S. has “to help ourselves and Europe become energy independent and do everything we can with Ukraine to try to give her the benefit of
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) pushed for sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline regardless of whether or not Russia invades Ukraine Graham said sanctioning Nord Stream 2 regardless of whether or
The Kremlin endeavored to depict a video call between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and American President Joe Biden as a friendly chat between old friends – not the tense showdown the White House described – on Wednesday, noting the two spoke for hours and made several jokes.
On Tuesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) said that Russia knows Europe depends on them for energy and sees that “if there’s opportunity for weakness, it comes because of the need for energy.” Quigley said, “The Russians have always
President Joe Biden threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with leveling sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, even after he scrapped them in May.
On Tuesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that reversing his “surrender to Putin” and canceling the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is “the single best thing” President Joe Biden could do to counteract Russia. Cruz stated, “This is
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) stated that it’s “clearly to our advantage” and detrimental to Russia to stop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from going online and that he believes if Russia were to
On Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) argued that if completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline isn’t blocked, Vladimir Putin will have “checkmate on Europe” and any sanctions on Russia won’t work
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) tied Russia’s increased aggression towards Ukraine to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and argued that Vladimir Putin “knows when he controls Europe’s gas” through the pipeline, “he
Sen. Ted Cruz is pushing for reinstating sanctions against Russia for the pipeline it is building to export natural gas to Germany.
The approval of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia was outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “biggest mistake”, said Donald Tusk.
The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said Sunday that Pope Francis mention of the Mediterranean Sea as a migrant “graveyard” cannot be construed to refer to Russia.
Europe’s dependency on Russia for energy has once again been shown to be foolhardy as gas prices soared on Monday.
Trump’s director of national intelligence said Russian President Vladimir Putin was the clear winner after his summit with Biden last week.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken declined to explain Tuesday why the Biden administration gave the green light to Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline but canceled the Keystone XL pipeline to Canada, saying he could not comment on “domestic… politics.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to accuse President Joe Biden of deceiving him into thinking the White House would oppose Russia’s lucrative and highly strategic Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Europe, telling Axios in an interview published Sunday he was “unpleasantly surprised” when Biden did nothing to stop it.
President Joe Biden defended on Tuesday his decision to allow the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline to finish construction, arguing that blocking it would hurt his relationship with European countries.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) said that he thinks he can get enough support for his legislation to bring back the sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that President
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday celebrated a “constructive” conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, saying Blinken shared his “understanding of the need to overcome the unhealthy situation that developed between Moscow and Washington in previous years.”
The Biden administration plans to scrap the sanctions on the Russian company responsible for the pipeline, despite initial signals that they would not.
France’s Le Monde reported this week that, during a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron on September 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested opposition leader Alexei Navalny might have poisoned himself.
BERLIN (AP) – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Monday he personally reached out to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to express “dismay” over a warning by three Republican senators who threatened sanctions against a German port operator for its part in a pipeline project with Russia.
The Trump administration’s stances on NATO spending, Iran, Chinese technology and a new Russian-German pipeline are meant to defend hard-won freedoms, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday in Berlin.
Wednesday’s release of the transcript of the July telephone conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky included no “quid pro quo” that would justify the growing Democrat effort to impeach President Trump. The hunt is on to find an implied bribe or threat because Trump did not offer one explicitly.
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) praised United States Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell Wednesday during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing and showed respect to German Ambassador to the United States Emily Haber.
