They’ve been using Russian gas for over 50 years....it’s just that the new pipe will bypass Poland and the Ukraine.
The fact that the revenue funds the Russian military machine? Once you figure that out...why bother with NATO? It’s all a joke then. The US should say we will stay in NATO but remove all but 1,000 troops from Europe, and just stage a single two-week exercise once a year and deploy 40,000 troops into Europe to prove that we can do it in record time.
((I live in Germany, and the natural gas that heats the house...is Russian gas.))
It’s a second pipe that’s not really needed. The bypass issue is there too. Germany is really flipping the bird here at every country in between in Germany and Russia. Nobody wanted this but them.