Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Shawarar da aka yanke na janye takunkumi a kan Nord Stream AG da babban jami'in zartarwa Matthias Warnig, bayan kammala aikin bututun iskar gas na Nord Stream 2, ya jawo suka daga majalisa. Blinken ya kare aikin a matsayin mai amfani da amfani ga bukatun Amurka kuma ya lura cewa ci gaba in ba haka ba zai zama mai tasiri ga dangantakar Turai ba. A watan Yunin 2021, Blinken ya yi tafiya tare da Biden don halartar taron kolin G7 na 47 a Cornwall, taron kolin NATO na 31 a Brussels, da taron kolin tare da shugaba Vladimir Putin a Geneva. Blinken da Biden duk sun yarda cewa dangantakar Amurka da Rasha ta kasance a mafi ƙarancin lokaci kuma dangantakar da za a iya tsammani ta kasance babban fifiko. Koyaya, ya nuna cewa za a aiwatar da ƙarin matakan ladabtarwa idan gwamnatin Rasha ta zaɓi ci gaba da ayyukan ƙiyayya kamar tsoma baki a zaɓen shugaban ƙasa na 2020, harin yanar gizo na SolarWinds, ko
bayyananniyar guba da ɗaurin Alexei Navalny. Daga shawarar da gwamnatin ta yanke na yin watsi da taron manema labarai na hadin gwiwa bayan taron kolin, Blinken ya bayyana cewa "ita ce hanya mafi inganci" kuma "ba wata al'ada ba ce".