Germany’s gas pact with Putin’s Russia endangers Atlantic alliance

There is one basic point to remember about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany: it does not add any extra natural gas supply to the European market for the foreseeable future.

This Molotov-Ribbentrop 2 pipeline - as the furious Poles call it - diverts the same Siberian gas from existing pipelines on land: the Yamal link through Belarus and Poland; and the ill-named Brotherhood link through Ukraine to South-East Europe…

The collective feeling in Washington is that American democracy has been raped by Kremlin cyber aggression. A state of political warfare exists between the US and Russia. We know which side Poland is on. Which side is Germany on?