Current and former officials who spoke with Newsweek suggested the U.S. and its NATO allies are moving too slow to stop Russia.
. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock have publicly criticized and threatened the project.
A State Department spokesperson dismissed the suggestion that Nord Stream 2 gives Moscow more leverage over the West. "The only negotiating power here is your partners, your partners over the ocean, over the Channel, across Europe—they are the only ones who can help you," Prystaiko said."Not because you are just weak, but because we have nothing to bargain with Russia."
"I think President Zelenskiy realizes now that President Putin is not going to negotiate seriously with him. Putin is not even negotiating seriously with Zelenskiy with the French and the Germans at the table," Taylor added, referring to the Normandy Format aiming to resolve the war in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainians have been disappointed in the Normandy format. The Germans and French, they haven't succeeded. The real power in these negotiations is going to come from pulling in the United States. Indeed, a deeper fear in Kyiv is that Ukraine will be sacrificed for greater U.S.-Russian bilateral goals.
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