Bundestag deputies angrily attacked the threat Monday

Bundestag deputies angrily attacked the threat Monday, with several accusing the U.S. Ambassador of acting like a postwar Allied High Commissioner. German Foreign Minister Haiko Maas said: “Questions of European energy policy should be decided in Europe, not in the United States.” In reality, Germany worked to block implementation of EU resolutions against the gas line. Seeing the sanctions threat as real, UNIAN’s Nana Black puts them in the same league of the shoulder held missiles the Trump Administration now provides Ukraine, writing: “This is more serious than the Javelins.”