The national flag of the Federal Republic of Germany over the Budestag building in BerlinMOSCOW, 18 Jan. The close economic and cultural ties between Russia and Germany are jeopardizing US plans to confront Russia, writes Bloomberg. According to the authors of the article, while the Joe Biden administration is trying to keep Russia from an allegedly planned attack on Ukraine, there are growing doubts about Germany's willingness to join this fight. The publication, in particular, refers to sources according to which US officials are increasingly talking about the «problem of Germany.» his attempts to resist what he called the «Evil Empire». (We are talking about the events of the summer of 1982, when the United States imposed an embargo on the supply to the USSR of oil and gas equipment manufactured by subsidiaries of American companies abroad. Their goal was to prevent the construction of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline under an agreement between the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany.)
FT: a split arose in the German government over Nord Stream 2 warned of a possible cessation of cooperation with Russia if energy supplies are used as a weapon in this way, the lack of unity in the new German government casts doubt on Berlin's ability to rebuff Moscow. The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with a capacity of 55 billion cubic meters per year will be stretched along the bottom of the Baltic Sea to Germany. Its certification was suspended by the German authorities due to the fact that the regulator considered it necessary to create a subsidiary of Nord Sream 2 AG in Germany. After that, a new application for certification will be submitted on its behalf, which is in line with European legislation. Moscow has repeatedly urged not to politicize the situation around Nord Stream 2 and emphasized that this is an exclusively commercial project, beneficial not only to Russia, but also to the European Union. 
Poland put forward a condition for Russia to launch Nord Stream 2
