sg47 3 hours ago

Have other countries elected traitors as leaders before or is this a first?

gnabgib 6 hours ago

https://archive.is/29L2K

The ally: former spy Matthias Warnig

> Matthias Warnig, an ex-Stasi officer in East Germany who until 2023 ran Nord Stream 2’s parent company for the Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom

> Joe Biden’s US administration sanctioned Warnig and Nord Stream 2 AG in 2022.

  • walterbell 6 hours ago

    > Matthias Warnig, an ex-Stasi officer in East Germany who until 2023 ran [was CEO of] Nord Stream 2’s parent company for the Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom.. Warnig called Putin’s invasion an “indescribable mistake” and resigned from the boards of two Kremlin-run energy companies after the war in Ukraine broke out in 2022..

    > one US-led consortium of investors has drawn up the outlines of a post-sanctions deal with Gazprom.. some of Trump's team now see the pipeline, which runs from Russia's Vyborg in the Gulf of Finland to Greifswald on Germany's Baltic coast, as a strategic asset that can be leveraged in the Ukraine peace talks, according to administration officials.