The U.S. has an official embargo on the import of Russian oil and natural gas. And yet Massachusetts recently completed construction of a massive LNG terminal that was built so they could import Russian gas instead of allowing the construction of pipelines to deliver AMERICAN gas from the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania.
Massachusetts circumvents the Russian embargo with the help of a French intermediary. You can be sure John Kerry is paid handsomely to facilitate this idiocy.
When does the U.S. military invade Massachusetts?
Two problems. First, we defend Europe and spend lots and lots of US taxpayer money to do it. Second problem is that the EU is talking out both sides of its face. If the EU wants to crawl into bed with the mullahs, they are free to do it. Just don't take our money while telling porkies about what you're up to and conspiring against US interests. If the EU wants the mullahs, then it can dissolve NATO and pay for its own damn welfare state.
Its all about the loopholes baby!
“The Russian LNG comes from a new $27 billion terminal on the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic Circleoperated by Yamal LNG—a joint venture among Russia’s gas company Novatek, France’s Total, and China’s CNPC. Novate is on the Treasury Department’s financial sanctions list. However, the LNG shipment does not violate the prohibitions that the Obama Administration imposed four years ago because it is owned by a French energy trader arriving on a French-owned vessel (Gaselys) and consisting of Russian gas as well as gas from other European sources.”