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Wake up, America: The world just isn t that into you – Asia Times

By Thomas A. Smith

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on whose foreign policy team I served during the 2016 campaign declared that he would block Senate confirmation of all of Biden s ambassadorial appointments until the sanctions are reinstated. Daniel Kochis of the Heritage Foundation titled his piece today, The US will regret this shameful appeasement of Russia.

Calm down, everyone. After Donald Trump imposed sanctions on firms laying the Nord Stream 2 pipe across the Baltic Sea, the Russians sent their own ship, and the work is finished. The Germans will go ahead regardless, so the least humiliating thing that Biden could do was to acknowledge reality and stand down.

via asiatimes.com

Seems about right.