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[American Rule of Law] Congress may force Biden to stop Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline

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by: ltlee1 - Thu, 13 May 2021 12:46 UTC

"A strong bipartisan majority in Congress wants to kill the pipeline and will step in. Congress has already passed laws to halt the pipeline - the Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act (PEESA) and Protecting Europe's Energy Security Clarification Act (PEESCA) - and these laws contain mandatory sanctions. The administration cannot simply ignore them when sanctionable activity is taking place. What's more, this legislation is carefully written so that the sanctions would not be applied to German firms, which undercuts the notion that sanctioning Nord Stream 2 means sanctioning an ally.
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These are all reasons for Biden to act on his insight that Nord Stream 2 is a "bad deal" for Europe and for the US. Acting now is fully consistent with his intention to restore U.S. leadership abroad. Leadership sometimes means persuading allies to do or accept things that, for their own parochial reasons, they do not want to do."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congress-may-force-biden-to-stop-russias-nord-stream-2-pipeline/ar-BB1gC3kU

The author of the article wrote "persuading allies to do or accept things that ... they do not want to." It is clear he meant "coercion."
In short, American leadership means America right and responsibility to coerce other nations to do something that they do not want to.

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