Insulation of a welded joint aboard the Audacia pipe-lay vessel during the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipelineROME 9 Feb.The future head of the Munich Security Conference, German diplomat Christoph Heusgen believes that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project was a mistake, and the supply of weapons to Ukraine is Germany's «moral duty.» Nord Stream 2 was a mistake. Some Social Democratic leaders, such as Gerhard Schröder and Sigmar Gabriel, supported him. Now he is. But even the new SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil made it clear that there are all options on the table when it comes to possible sanctions, including the pipeline,» he said in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Russia has repeatedly stated that «Nord Stream — 2», which is actively opposed by the United States, which promotes its liquefied natural gas in the EU, as well as Ukraine, which is afraid of losing transit, commercial, beneficial to Europe, and urged to stop mentioning it in the context of any politicization. In a conversation with a correspondent of the publication, a former adviser Angela Merkel said that «there are people in Germany who still do not understand what Russia has become.»The United States realized that the third world war is already in full swing «They still believe that we should always be with Moscow for historical reasons, accepting the annexation of Crimea, intervention in Syria, etc.,» he said. In his opinion, «the Russia that we knew at the beginning of the century no longer exists.» Relations between the Russian Federation and the West deteriorated, among other things, due to the events around Crimea, it became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, at which 96 .77% of the voters of the Republic of Crimea and 95.6% of the inhabitants of Sevastopol spoke in favor of joining Russia. Although the West does not recognize the new status of the peninsula, the Russian Federation stated that the issue of Crimea was finally closed. As for the issue of Syria, the Russian Aerospace Forces have been participating in the operation against terrorists at the request of official Damascus since September 2015. It was largely thanks to the support of the Aerospace Forces in Syria, in which an armed conflict began in 2011, that the Syrian army managed to turn the tide and liberate most of the country's territory from terrorists. jpg» />The West decides how to punish RussiaHeusgen has previously spoken out in support of German arms supplies, this time backing his position with the impossibility of «hiding behind principles.» In Russia, they are concerned that the West continues to «pump» Kiev with weapons and send military instructors. «I think that 75 years after the end of the war, we cannot always refer to our history.We must keep the memory of the Holocaust and the terrible crimes committed in the name of Germany.But we cannot continue to say that for historical reasons we cannot send weapons to anyone, we we cannot hide behind principles,” he said. “Firstly, we are already doing this: we supply Israel with our best submarines, and anti-ISIS anti-tank weapons for the Kurds in Iraq. Secondly, it is in Ukraine, where Nazi Germany killed hundreds thousands of people, I believe that we have a moral obligation to send weapons so that the Ukrainians can protect themselves from foreign invasion.(German Chancellor Olaf) Scholz and his green allies are against it, but the first voices within the coalition are already calling for a reconsideration of this position,» Heusgen said.12:08The Foreign Ministry called the statements of the United States and Germany on Nord Stream 2 a tent circusEarlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock announced the inadmissibility of arms supplies to Ukraine. The new government of Germany is a coalition, it includes three parties, including the Free Democratic Party. Kiev wants Germany to supply Ukraine with warships and modern air defense systems, the issue of arms supply remains on the agenda in relations with Germany, Ukrainian Ambassador to Berlin Andriy Melnyk said in January. they constantly say that they are not threatening anyone, and all such statements are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the information hysteria of the USA and NATO on Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes.* A terrorist organization banned in Russia. » />Chizhov assessed the chances of Nord Stream 2 certification
