German economic Minister Altmaier said yesterday as well, that it will be completed.
You lost your Nawalny scharade momentum.
Spring comes late in Germany? We are lucky to have a few days of snow. Your lack of knowledge shows again.
Putin, Merkel and Rostocker said the pipeline will be completed too. Rostocker is in the lead by a mile in the most times saying it.
You guys have been saying this since US sanctions arrested the project in December. Now the Baltic winter storm season is upon the project and its operations base at Rugen island that is a stone's throw off German shores, much like Martha's Vineyard is off Massachusetts.
Yet none of you can name one deepwater undersea pipe laying vessel in the world that is available to you due to US sanctions against the owners, insurers and any qualified company that would inspect a completed line to confirm a certification.
Say for argument you completed the final 99 miles, any qualified company that would agree to inspect the entire 1100 km of pipe to recommend certification to the German authorities would be sanctioned immediately. NS 2 owner Gazprom doesn't have any qualified company to do this. And that's if you were able to complete laying the pipe to landfall in Germany, the foreseeable prospects of which are oogats zilch and kaput. Your guys are still talking about formally suspending the operation for between 12 months to 24 mos.
If Germany does nothing about Navalny its global foreign policy gets snapped in two. Russia will assume ownership of it, China will begin to push you around all the more, Turkey will tell your foreign ministry to go pound sand, Greece will ask you who you think you are and so on north, south, east, west. Bank on it.
As I've said about Germany and Russia, if Putin told you to buy Russian snow you'd ask how much. That's the bad news. The good news is that you'd probably get a discount as with the Russian gas -- while you overcharge Europe for the gas.
And again, the open ended pipe sections piled up on Rugen are highly sophisticated inside with a hi-tech control unit in each one, which means that after a storm filled Baltic winter on your island damage assessments will need to be conducted and adjustments made to replacement sections and additional costs in addition to already existing additional and unforeseen additional costs.
As in additional.
Unforeseen.
You may have to pass the hat around Germany for this one.