appeased Mr. Putin by lifting said sanctions under the dubious reasoning that the pipeline is not currently in operation which means to Mr. Biden and the admin that it is not leverage on Putin. That is classic nonsense as lifting obstacles to the under water pipeline enables Putin to by-pass Ukraine, Poland and Belarus in delivering natural gas to Western Europe which ensures that our NATO allies are more dependent on Russia and less willing to confront Mr. Putin. Mr. Biden did this while simultaneously killing the Keystone Pipeline ensuring increasing inflation on the home front..
Lest we forget, within two months the border area of Russia and Ukraine will be solidly frozen much to the delight of crews manning Russian armor divisions as they race across Ukraine to establish a land bridge with Crimea.