The U.S. doesn’t have the capacity to supply Western Europe with enough LNG, yet. There there are many LNG docks currently under construction. Once they are up an running within the next year, Western Europe will have a reliable supplier of just about all their requirements.
That’s what Russia is really afraid of.
Trump would agree with Cruz, if he could. Less than 6 months ago Trump asked the EU to purchase LNG from Israel. Israel now furnishes LNG to Egypt and the EU - in full operation for about one month. This has Russia worried. In fact Russia and China signed a pipeline agreement this week. This is interesting and is possibly what Cruz had in mind. Much is going on in Europe and the Middle East, yet no one here appears to be aware.
The childiness of this thinking is really shocking.
Is Russia or Germany fighting to prevent US LNG development? :)
The biggest problem here is of moral nature.
The United States are lecturing the World about open markets and free enterprise but everywhere you look around for several decades it is US government which interfere with the market and often using ridiculous socialist the toric while at it.
Germany and Russia doesn’t care about US LNG projects and by the way Russia doesn’t care too.
Ten years ago when the talks of US LNG to Europe started Russia lacked any serious LNG capacity. Now it has developed it too and it surpassed US capacity. In fact Russian companies are using most of LNG terminals built under US programs everywhere and not the American. There were instances of them delivering LNG to US and then US companies are leasing Russian LNG tankers to deliver theirs.
It is a big complicated business involving humongous investments.
Nobody says US companies can’t work there. Offer enough capacity and a good price to start with.
Inventing political reasons to stop commercial rivals in a business you lack competence in is the very definition of fascism.
This stuff ruins the reputation of US as any serious and moral country.
That is especially important vis a vis Russia and Germany and especially Russia.
Reagan at the time persuaded Russia to drop Communism and adopt market system. US has no business to interfere with Russia doing business using open markets otherwise it gives fuel to the critics of free market and free enterprise who are hinting that none of that exists but only the tool US uses to pull down other countries.
It is another nail into a coffin of freedom and current world order and it seems like you are supporting hammering it. That’s fundamentally un American.
Once again you don’t see Germany outraged by the fact of Mexico’s and Canada’s over reliance on US. Much less they are trying to ban trade between US and these countries although it would produce some opportunities for Germany.