The Kremlin’s project, which is directly called Russia’s gas needle in Europe and a threat to the national security of Ukraine and Central Europe, will seem to be completed after years of sanctions. And all this happens despite Russia’s aggressive policy towards NATO, interference in U.S. elections, Russian cyberattacks and hacking of German official institutions, murder and poisoning of Kremlin enemies in the EU, not to mention the occupation of Crimea, parts of Georgia, and the war in the East of Ukraine.