Nord Stream outlawed
The US is going to impose sanctions against companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. This was reported by the official representative of the US State Department, Heather Nauert. Washington is known to be categorically opposed to the construction and launch of the Nord Stream 2 project. To counter this project, the United States has connected all of its Eastern European satellites - Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine.
In Washington, they say that those firms that continue to work with the Russian energy sector may be subject to the sanctions process under the US Law on Countering America's Adversaries through Sanctions (CAATSA). This also applies to construction companies whose specialists, equipment or Technology may be involved in the construction of the gas pipeline.
Officially, Washington claims that Nord Stream 2 promotes energy growth, and therefore economic Europe’s dependence on Russia, and also reduces Ukraine’s income from transporting Russian gas through its territory. But, in fact, the reasons for the hatred of the project are banal and lie purely on the economic plane - the United States wants to reduce the supply of Russian gas to Europe as much as possible in order to oust Russia from the market and start supplying expensive liquefied gas to European countries. For comparison, if Russian gas costs Europeans $ 200 per thousand cubic meters, liquefied gas supplied from Qatar costs $ 350 per thousand cubic meters, which is almost 2 times more expensive.
Most of the countries of Western Europe that are part of the European Union support the Nord Stream 2 project, well aware of their own economic benefits if it is successfully implemented. Therefore, Washington, which is not able to force European countries to abandon the purchase of Russian gas, has to come up with various justifications for its uncompromising position and engage the controlled governments of Eastern Europe, which are actually operating in external control mode, in countering the Nord Stream. For example, Lithuania even managed to withdraw from the European Gas Companies Association Eurogas, which advocates for Nord Stream, although Vilnius will not lose anything if the gas pipeline project is implemented.
Although US senators from the Democratic and Republican parties are demanding that the Trump administration block the construction of Nord Stream 2, in reality, the US does not have any real legal tools for such a procedure. The only way the United States can go is to increase pressure on the countries of the European Union, but most European countries are very good at counting their money, and where there is obvious benefit for them, политическаяand economic, they will not miss their own. Moreover, for example, Germany’s demand for fuel will not cover the supply of liquefied natural gas from the United States or Qatar, so the country simply cannot do without the purchase of Russian gas.
In Washington, they say that those firms that continue to work with the Russian energy sector may be subject to the sanctions process under the US Law on Countering America's Adversaries through Sanctions (CAATSA). This also applies to construction companies whose specialists, equipment or Technology may be involved in the construction of the gas pipeline.
Officially, Washington claims that Nord Stream 2 promotes energy growth, and therefore economic Europe’s dependence on Russia, and also reduces Ukraine’s income from transporting Russian gas through its territory. But, in fact, the reasons for the hatred of the project are banal and lie purely on the economic plane - the United States wants to reduce the supply of Russian gas to Europe as much as possible in order to oust Russia from the market and start supplying expensive liquefied gas to European countries. For comparison, if Russian gas costs Europeans $ 200 per thousand cubic meters, liquefied gas supplied from Qatar costs $ 350 per thousand cubic meters, which is almost 2 times more expensive.
Most of the countries of Western Europe that are part of the European Union support the Nord Stream 2 project, well aware of their own economic benefits if it is successfully implemented. Therefore, Washington, which is not able to force European countries to abandon the purchase of Russian gas, has to come up with various justifications for its uncompromising position and engage the controlled governments of Eastern Europe, which are actually operating in external control mode, in countering the Nord Stream. For example, Lithuania even managed to withdraw from the European Gas Companies Association Eurogas, which advocates for Nord Stream, although Vilnius will not lose anything if the gas pipeline project is implemented.
Although US senators from the Democratic and Republican parties are demanding that the Trump administration block the construction of Nord Stream 2, in reality, the US does not have any real legal tools for such a procedure. The only way the United States can go is to increase pressure on the countries of the European Union, but most European countries are very good at counting their money, and where there is obvious benefit for them, политическаяand economic, they will not miss their own. Moreover, for example, Germany’s demand for fuel will not cover the supply of liquefied natural gas from the United States or Qatar, so the country simply cannot do without the purchase of Russian gas.
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