For those unable to watch, the clip is from before the war began. Biden says that in the event of a Russian invasion into Ukraine, there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. “We will bring an end to it.”

The reporter asks how they would do it since it’s outside US jurisdiction. “I promise you we will be able to do it.”

Edit: Full interview (03:42)

  • loathesome dongeaterOP
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    62 years ago

    at that time the answer was in fact very much that Scholz was not yet willing to explicitly make that threat

    He didn’t explicitly make that threat but seems like he is in line with whatever the American expectations are. He basically says that Germany will do whatever America will ask them to do.