International Security Implications of the US-Russia Contention Over the Nord Stream 2

... the supply volumes it wanted: 65 billion cubic meters in the first year, and 40 billion the next year. In the absence of the Nord Stream 2, delayed by the US sanctions, Gazprom might have to supply some 75 Bcm through Ukraine in 2020 . Nevertheless, the critics of the project are already ... ... movement of naval vessels. From that reasoning follows that adequate countermeasures need to be designed and implemented by NATO in order to prevent a "blow" against security in Eastern Europe. As a consequence, the whole area is getting locked ...