there's talk to thomas o'donnell he's a global energy analyst from the hershey school of government in berlin mr o'donnell welcome along is this project ever going to be completed. well good afternoon thank you for having me on i love the w. . well if what i've been telling people is that if i had to bet i'd bet it won't be i would bet it wouldn't be completed and i have to add if there's a rule of law in europe in germany and in denmark then it really shouldn't it really couldn't be completed i think let me make. well 3 points ok on this these american sanctions are very targeted sanctions that have broad shotgun sanctions. initially they prevented the one ship that could lay pipe in very deep danish waters that was required. you know they sanctioned the ship it left last year now since then the russians have made various adaptations in the german side as well and the americans came back with another tranche this trench puts particular sanctions and certification companies that are needed in every step of a major project like this to certify the construction the materials and then per

earlier i spoke to thomas o'donnell energy expert at the hershey school of governments and berlin he says north stream too has turned into a highly geo political issue one that is especially important for russian president vladimir putin as we all know putin has designs and ukraine and designs and bella ruse and these pipelines all 80 percent of the gas that germany russia sense europe goes through these countries and this is a this is a problem because putin has started wars and so forth in these countries so germany has skin in the game that it doesn't want to have skin in the game to put it sort of bluntly they agree with putin he also does not want the guest to anymore go through those countries instead of something that he can use for corruption and control for elite capture and that kind of thing because of the resistance in both these countries he wants to get them out because if he's going to proceed to suppress these countries he doesn't want to risk his business with europe and the german leadership has decided that they're not going to take a risk either they agree with th

are part of it from sanctions there's talks here thomas adonal he's a global energy analyst from the hershey school of governance in berlin mr o'donnellwelcome along is this project ever going to be complacent. well good afternoon and thank you for having me on i love the w. . well if what i've been telling people is that if i had to bet i'd bet it won't be i would bet it wouldn't be completed and i have to add if there's a rule of law in europe in germany and in denmark then it really shouldn't it really couldn't be completed i think let me make. well 3 points ok on this these american sanctions are very targeted sanctions and that broad shotgun sanctions. initially they prevented the one ship that could lay pipe in very deep danish waters that was required. you know they sanctioned the ship and it left last year now since then the russians have made various adaptations in the german side as well and the americans came back with another tranche this trench puts particular sanctions and certification companies that are needed in every step of a major project like this to certify the construction the materials and then perpetually ever