Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is urging Congress to take action to make permanent sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany
on Wednesday – hours before Russian leader Vladimir Putin launched a military assault on Ukraine – moved ahead with sanctions on the company that overseeing the building of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project, providing a major blow to the pipeline from Russia to Germany. The penalty against Moscow was one of a series of steps the U.S. and its allies have slapped on Russia after it recognized separatist territories in eastern Ukraine ahead of sending in troops.
Cruz once again charged that"the reason that Russia is invading Ukraine right now is because of repeated mistakes made by the Biden White House."He argued that one of the mistakes was what he called the"catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the weakness that projected to every enemy of America that emboldened our enemies."
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