The Fight for Nord Stream 2: The Interests of all the Players Involved

... which will not change the timeframe or costs to any significant degree. The United States uses other countries in addition to Poland to exert pressure on the Nord Stream 2 project. Sweden and Denmark in particular have become pawns in the United States political manoeuvring, as the gas pipeline will go through their offshore areas and Gazprom has applied to these countries for construction permits. On August 25, 2016, then Vice President Joe Biden paid an official ... ... thing for Europe. A month later, in September 2016, the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences published a list of scenarios of a Russian attack of Sweden. One of the scenarios suggested that Russian forces could seize the Swedish island of Gotland, with the ...