Why Biden waives sanctions against Nord Stream 2

 "The US president weighed soberly. What is more damaging to the interests of the United States in the end: the pipeline or stress with a reliable ally? The result was probably clear. This is also how you can end an argument - give up. At least that is what US President Joe Biden's decision not to impose any sanctions against Nord Stream 2 AG, the Swiss-based company that is building the gas pipeline of the same name through the Baltic Sea and belongs to the Russian energy company Gazprom, for overriding national security interests. 

 The pipe should be ready in summer and transport natural gas from Russia to Germany. The US government announced to Congress on Wednesday that, as parliament has demanded, it would impose punitive measures on some of the Russian organizations involved in the construction of the pipeline and four special ships. But in practice this will probably not have any noteworthy consequences as long as the umbrella group, which is headed by Putin's friend and former Stasi officer Matthias Warnig, is spared punishment. 

Could Biden have decided otherwise? Yes, but only at a considerable price. Sanctioning Nord Stream 2 AG - in other words: cutting them off and all their business partners from the American financial market - would not only have led to massive upheavals with Moscow, but also brought the conflict with Berlin over the pipeline to a head. The potential harm from sanctions could easily have exceeded the benefits."

Another interpretation is possible. The twists and turns of the Freedom Party in Lithuania so enchanted Landsbergiukas that he forgot that resisting the Russians was the purpose of his life and missed the cause.