“No sanctions will stop the implementation of the project. Nord Stream 2 will be completed and launched. This is in the interests of both Russia and the EU countries. Nevertheless, the United States can’t come to terms with the fact that they have already lost the role of hegemon and that not all of their desires can be realized, ”the senator believes.
According to Tsekov, such decisions of the United States lead to the fact that the states against which sanctions are directed “develop new methods and methods in the implementation of certain projects.”
Earlier, the head of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jim Rich, said that Congress was going to include sanctions against the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline in the country's defense budget for 2020.