What the Secretary Zinke has actually said is that the USA can use its military might to block a competitor's shipments such as shooting at the ships laying the pipelines in the Baltic or Black seas.
Russia doesn't 'broker energy', Russia produces it. The routes we want to use to export it are no business of Poland, the Baltic countries, Romania or whoever else. And our denial to use their territory and/or pipelines is no bullying, sorry.
The people bullied most by Russia are the Russian people themselves. Yet year after year after year (century after century) they continue to submit to their oligarch masters. Or tsar or latest dictator.
For such an energy producing state as you boast, Russia continues to lag behind the rest of Europe in terms of standard of living. Russia is obsessed with bombs and tanks, yet has a GDP that is 1/7 the size of the state of Texas. At least that is what I am told by people here on Free Republic.
But guess what: the Russians might put up with the Kremlin’s bullying but America and the rest of our true allies will not. And our truest allies happen to be nations like Poland.
Israel is getting tired of Russia too. Especially as it pertains to Syria.