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> the same with russia, biden calls putin during a period of cold relations, they talk it up in the media as a step in thawing the relationship and the next day another department announces more economic sanctions against nordstream 2
It is just realpolitik. US basically allowed NS2 to build, lifting all real sanctions. New sanctions are joke, they are used to have some political continuity in eyes of commoner, i.e. "look, we still against it". There must be some action from Russian side as part of deal, but we don't know terms. It is hard to imagine that US would easily allow that project without requiring some profit to itself.