Since the early 1980s, the United States repeatedly imposed sanctions on European allies in the attempt to stop the construction of natural gas pipelines from Russia. Agathe Demarais (The Economist Intelligence Unit) tells the stories of the Siberian Natural Gas Pipeline, Nord Stream 1, and Nord Stream 2, as well as the costs and unintended consequences of the US sanctions (53:00).
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- Agathe Demarais. 2022. Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against US Interests. Columbia University Press.