Ted Cruz spent years fighting Vladimir Putin’s prized Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which President Biden allowed to go forward until Russia invaded Ukraine. Bencjacobs spoke with Cruz about the sanctions now in place and the new ones Cruz is pushing for
Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/Shutterstock For years, a Russian-led pipeline project has been Ted Cruz’s nemesis. Nord Stream 2, which would allow the country to export billions of dollars’ worth of natural gas to Western Europe while bypassing Ukraine, has been a single-minded focus of the senator who pushed legislation in 2019 that was signed by Donald Trump to sanction the pipeline’s owner.
“That decision was the direct cause of the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” Cruz said in an interview this week in his Senate office. “And when Biden waived sanctions on Nord Stream 2, I said at the time, ‘The consequences of this, if the Biden administration allows Nord Stream 2 to be completed, will be a Russian invasion of Ukraine, will be Russian tanks in the streets of Kyiv.’ I wish that prediction had not proven accurate, but it has proven precisely accurate.
In the meantime, Cruz took heart that Russia’s invasion is going worse than expected, thanks to the U.S.- and NATO-supplied weapons of Ukraine’s military and the ferocious resolve of civilians. But he warned of a grim turn to come as Russia pounds cities and masses forces outside Kyiv. “Right now, the focus should be on stopping Russia from conquering Ukraine,” he said, calling for the West to boycott Russia’s oil-and-gas exports and increase aid to Ukraine, saying “victory is perhaps arguable.
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