Posted on 02/27/2021 1:23:27 PM PST by Mariner
A briefing between the State Department and congressional staff over Vladimir Putin's Russia-Germany gas pipeline got tense this week, with Biden officials deflecting questions about why they hadn't moved faster and more aggressively with sanctions to stop its completion.
The Biden officials also denied negotiating with the Germans over a potential side deal to allow the pipeline to be finished.
Why it matters: As we reported earlier this week, some allies are worried that Biden is shaky on Putin's Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and the fight is a significant test of whether the new president's tough rhetoric against Russia will be matched by action.
Russian opponents, including top officials in the Ukrainian and Polish governments, worry that Biden doesn't want to antagonize Angela Merkel and won't inflict serious costs on the Germans.
And members of Congress — both Republicans and Democrats — were underwhelmed by a report that the Biden State Department recently sent to Congress, which only targeted one Russian ship for sanctions. The Trump administration had already sanctioned that ship, the Fortuna.
Behind the scenes: The first call between the senior State Department officials and Republican and Democratic national security staffers from the House and Senate happened on Tuesday.
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Oh, that big 1982 Siberian explosion?
Fort Worth Star-Telegram / The New York Times | 2/3/04 | William Safire
Posted on 2/4/2004, 12:13:42 AM by Valin
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1071087/posts
"Trump has long wanted to kill a Russia-Germany natural gas pipeline. Navalny’s poisoning could do it for him"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-long-wanted-kill-russia-143002582.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANTC99eJmNK7nN4pdkVTR5C-wmq5vBQh4o-hoyKu0gcmyUVp4BuvwTAFRGvhdYXV-cMDCTzdcgVkNpcZFlpIDOVQhUBfQ6s_fVetvaH-X5LFNcDXs8NOI1UylK0JO8yOQnxzXuhkY--zykLSTwVxA9KdUlWONSumcX2a-_hRTJ31
"The Russian pipeline to Germany that Trump is so mad about, explained"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/11/the-russian-pipeline-to-germany-that-trump-is-so-mad-about-explained/
"Cruz Presses Trump on Blocking Russian Gas Pipeline to Germany"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-05/cruz-presses-trump-on-blocking-russian-gas-pipeline-to-germany
"Trump Imposes Sanctions To Stop Nord Stream 2 – But It’s Too late"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2019/12/21/trump-imposes-sanctions-to-stop-nord-stream-2--but-its-too-late/?sh=44ba5f275df1
"Trump lashes Germany over gas pipeline deal, calls it ..."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2019/12/21/trump-imposes-sanctions-to-stop-nord-stream-2--but-its-too-late/?sh=44ba5f275df1
"Nord Stream 2: Trump approves sanctions on Russia gas pipeline"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50875935
That pipeline is also likely pumping from Israel’s Leviathon gas field in the Mediterranean. That means that the Jew haters in the Nazi rat party can stick it to both Israeli and Russian Jews.
Just because Trump wanted to end it, doesn’t mean it was the the right policy.
I contend it was NOT.
“the more trade there is between two nations, the less chance there is of warfare.”
Yes.
Logically, this shows there’s no justification for NATO.
But Europe wants NATO too.
“That’s their decision to make”
Whether they want NATO or Russian gas.
And I agree they should make it.
Russia is not our enemy.
Um, you mean other than preventing us from shipping copious amounts of LNG to Germany?
Biden’s ending fracking will result in natural gas shortages here. Won’t be any to ship to Germany.
Like everyone who disputes Trump you make the mistake of ignoring the basics.
NATO requires no Nordsteam.
Sure, end NATO and this is fine, but the PTB want to keep NATO.
“Like everyone who disputes Trump you make the mistake of ignoring the basics.”
The “basics” are that the US has no interest in whether there is a pipeline between Russia and Germany.
None.
And if the pipeline causes the disintegration of NATO, even better.
Seriously.
Address the real world- where Nordstream and NATO are both maintained.
Maybe China is picking off parts of the EU.
Germany being the plum.
So why did Putin show a video of Florida being nuked by a Russian hypersonic missile?
Fair enough. It’s best to think for yourself. I’ll admit that I never studied, nor thought through the issue very deeply before.
Meanwhile, Trump certainly treated Canadian pipelines more fairly than his predecessor and successor. That made me predisposed to agree with Trump’s pipeline policies in general.
“Yeah, I’m trying to figure out whose palms are being greased.”
Hunter and Burisma. The latter is a gas company connected to the alternative pipeline business to which NS2 is a competition.
I just was gonna ask that. Why is this our business?
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