"President Trump is so inclined to rhetorical excesses that sometimes he harms his own business, even when he is right. An example of this is the German sprawl on Wednesday for the support of the new Russian gas pipeline, "the editorial office of the American The Wall Street Journal.

Journalists quote Trump's statement that Germany pays Russia billions of dollars a year, although it should avoid it, and that the appointment of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as the head of the company that builds Nord Stream 2 is "a very bad thing for NATO".

"Although then Trump missed a lishka, saying that" Germany is completely controlled by Russia, this is his philippica - an exact summary of the role of Berlin in the project "Nord Stream -2", - confident edition.

"The Kremlin hopes to strengthen Germany's and Western Europe's dependence on Russian gas, depriving Ukraine and other inconvenient countries of transit fees that Russia must pay to use the current pipelines.

And then Moscow will be able, when it wants, to block the flow of gas into the countries that Russia still considers its satellites, "reads the article.

"It's a shame for Berlin and NATO that Germany is happy to help Vladimir Putin fulfill this plan. Hostages are usually forced, not voluntarily, "the editorial office said..

"Yet Trump's warnings about the strategic underlying reason for this pipeline would have been more convincing if he had not as stubbornly tried to play down Putin's strategic threat as stubbornly as Schroeder," reads the article.