Biden and his foreign policy team—National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and [[Victoria Nuland]], the Undersecretary of State for Policy—had been vocal and consistent in their hostility to the two pipelines, which ran side by side for 750 miles under the [[Baltic Sea]] from two different ports in northeastern Russia near the [[Estonia]]n border, passing close to the [[Danish]] island of Bornholm before ending in northern [[Germany]]. | Biden and his foreign policy team—National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and [[Victoria Nuland]], the Undersecretary of State for Policy—had been vocal and consistent in their hostility to the two pipelines, which ran side by side for 750 miles under the [[Baltic Sea]] from two different ports in northeastern Russia near the [[Estonia]]n border, passing close to the [[Danish]] island of Bornholm before ending in northern [[Germany]]. |