*''“The United States decided that we have been cooperating too well with [[Germany]] over the past 20 or 30 years; or rather, the Germans cooperated with us too well...The powerful alliance based on Russian energy resources and German [[technology]] began to threaten the [[monopoly]] position of many [[American]] corporations...So, [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] decided to destroy this alliance between [[Moscow]] and [[Berlin]], and did it literally by attacking the pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian gas to [[Europe]] through Germany”.'' | *''“The United States decided that we have been cooperating too well with [[Germany]] over the past 20 or 30 years; or rather, the Germans cooperated with us too well...The powerful alliance based on Russian energy resources and German [[technology]] began to threaten the [[monopoly]] position of many [[American]] corporations...So, [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] decided to destroy this alliance between [[Moscow]] and [[Berlin]], and did it literally by attacking the pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian gas to [[Europe]] through Germany”.'' |