Fmr. Biden Energy Adviser on Germany Ignoring Obama on Nord Stream 2: ‘They Bought into the Argument of Your Heroin Dealer, the First Hit Is Free’

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HORDERN: “But don't you almost sometimes need to maybe shake them up? You were part of the Obama administration telling Germany not to go ahead with Nord Stream 2. Yet they did it.”
HOCHSTEIN: “Yes. And if they didn't do it, large parts of why their declining economy is now would have been avoided. They bought into the argument of your heroin dealer. The first hit is free. And after that, you pay a big price. And it's not only that. I went to Germany before the Ukraine war, five months before and said, something's wrong here. You're in trouble. And they insisted that they weren't. When the Russians were playing a game of filling their storage in the winter from their own storage instead of from Russia. I said, how is it possible? Your pipeline is empty, but your storage is filling.”