12/13 German officials say they had hoped to use Nord Stream’s expected demise as a bargaining chip in talks with Poland, /which is dead set against the pipeline. In exchange for backing away from Nord Stream, Berlin wanted Warsaw to drop demands that Germany pay war reparations./
9/7 (Gabriel) noted that Europe could help, for example, in restoring water supply and sanitation systems,〜also warned against the start of a new arms race. Unlike the previous era, when such an arms race took place between Russia and NATO, this time the arms spiral could cover the entire world,