In the wake of the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, prominent German politicians are calling on Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel to abandon the gas pipeline project, Nord Stream 2, which runs between Germany and Russia. Host Carol Hills speaks to Yuval Weber, a Washington, DC-based research assistant professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University who is also a professor of Russian military and political strategy at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia.
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