Russia
Reports
Pavel K. Baev
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
Angela Stent
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
[While the FBI, the National Security Agency and several other government agencies have long worked on foreign interference,] we are not organized in a way where we are building a coherent threat picture.
I think the unfortunate side effect of American economic sanctions [against Nord Stream 2], in the context of the Trump administration, was to make Germans feel defensive and mulish. I think there was a sense of being hammered over the head by an American president using a double standard.
