EU too: Brussels gets mad at Ted Cruz
Washington spent years despising Ted Cruz. Now, Brussels and the EU believe they have reason to be angry, too.
Cruz, the combative Republican senator from Texas, has made a high-profile spectacle of his pledge to slow-walk President Joe Biden’s national security and diplomatic nominees. And that has led numerous EU officials and diplomats to view him as primarily responsible for the absence of U.S. ambassadors to the EU, France and NATO — vacancies that EU officials and diplomats believe contributed to a breakdown in communication over a new strategic alliance between the U.S., U.K., and Australia in the Indo-Pacific.
Technically, that’s not quite right — at least not yet. Those nominations haven’t cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, so Cruz has yet to formally throw up roadblocks. But he has shown no signs of backing down from his vow, which stems from his bid to pressure Biden to impose mandatory sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, a Russian-German project the U.S. has long opposed.
But that doesn’t mean the EU’s fury at him is misplaced; it’s just a bit premature.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/eu-too-brussels-gets-mad-at-ted-cruz/ar-AAPaUnD
Nobody likes Cruz
Everybody hates Cruz
He's going out back to eat worms.
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