eyephone said:
You brought up Putin not me. Who controls the gas line from Russia to Europe? Not Biden.
We had this under control...like the border...and in retrospect..he was right again...
Trump has long wanted to kill a Russia-Germany natural gas pipeline. Navalny?s poisoning could do it for him
Thanks to the Kremlin, U.S. President Donald Trump may soon see one of his dearest wishes come true.
Nord Stream 2, a nearly completed project that would pipe natural gas from Russia under the Baltic Sea to Germany, has thus far withstood major diplomatic assaults from the United States. But now, with the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, there is growing pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to kill the $11 billion scheme.
If Merkel does reverse her long-standing support for Nord Stream 2, as she has for the first time hinted she might do, the beneficiary would likely be the U.S.
?Totally controlled by Russia?
Nord Stream 2 represents the expansion of an existing Russia-to-Germany gas system called?you guessed it?Nord Stream. The original system was completed in 2012. Nord Stream 2, running mostly in parallel to the existing Nord Stream system, would double its annual capacity to 110 billion cubic meters.
Construction on Nord Stream 2 began in 2018, after Germany granted planning permission for its end point in the northeastern German town of Lubmin.
It did not take long for Trump to express outrage. ?Germany is totally controlled by Russia,? he declared during a mid-2018 meeting with NATO top brass. The President tied the matter to his often-stated desire for NATO countries other than the U.S. to step up their defense spending. ?So we?re supposed to protect you against Russia, and you pay billions of dollars to Russia, and I think that?s very inappropriate,? he griped.
https://fortune.com/2020/09/08/trump-pipeline-russia-germany-natural-gas-merkel-navalny-poisoned-nord-stream-2/
President Donald Trump signed a bill last week that would sanction companies working on the Nord Stream 2 oil pipeline from Russia to Germany, prompting a Swiss company to immediately walk away from the $10 billion project. Germany and Russia are not happy; Russia promised retaliation. The threat of sanctions shows how much economic power the United States still has.