Newsweek Opinion Editor Josh Hammer and Polish-American journalist Matthew Tyrmand sat down in Warsaw with Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki who criticised both the Biden administration’s 180-degree turn on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will transport natural gas from Russia into the heart of the EU, and White House energy policy to date.
The Polish prime minister said:
“We are very disappointed, in Poland, about the recent change of the position of the United States in particular because, over the last couple of years, we have worked hand-in-hand with the U.S. administration to stop or to slow down the development of Nord Stream 2. And it was only recently that the American administration changed its view on this with false hopes that this will help to repair the relations between the U.S. and the European Union. Well, Germany is not the European Union. Germany is Germany, and they have their own interests and it so happens that their interests are quite aligned and on the same page with the Russian interests.”