Isabel van Brugen and Jan JekielekThe Epoch TimesPresident Joe Biden’s weak messaging and policies on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline played a role in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a full-scale invasion against Ukraine Feb. 24, former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell suggested in a recent interview.“This is a disaster … We didn’t have to have this situation unfold,” Grenell told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando.Grenell, former U.S. ambassador to Germany, said he believes the Biden administration’s decision in May 2021 to waive sanctions on the company behind Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany and its chief execut
