Not Just A Commercial Deal How Gazprom Uses Projects Like Nord Stream 2 to Undermine Transatlanti

Originally uploaded on October 30, 2020

Benjamin Schmitt describes how the Russian government uses Gazprom, a Russian-owned natural gas company, and natural gas pipeline projects such as Nord Stream 2 that runs from St. Petersburg under the Baltic Sea to Germany to affect global security, particularly in Europe and North America.

From 2015-2019, Benjamin served as European Energy Security Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, where he advanced diplomacy important to the energy and national security interests of the Transatlantic community, with a focus on supporting NATO’s Eastern Flank as it faced Russian malign energy activities.

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