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€2,000 per 1,000 cubic meters is equal to $65 per thousand cubic feet, which is about 10 times the wholesale cost of gas in the [[Midwest]] (where prices have already risen sharply this winter).

€2,000 per 1,000 cubic meters is equal to $65 per thousand cubic feet, which is about 10 times the wholesale cost of gas in the [[Midwest]] (where prices have already risen sharply this winter).

From the White House press briefing room podium, [[Biden junta]] chief [[propagandist]] [[Jen Psaki]] defended the Trump era sanctions against the Nord Stream II pipeline in February 2021, noting that any new pipeline carrying [[fossil fuel]] from Russia to Germany “goes against [[Europe]]’s own stated energy and security goals.”<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/02/16/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-february-16-2021/</ref> The pipeline is a massive scandal in Germany, with former [[Democratic Socialist]] chancellor [[Gerhard Schroeder]] on the board of the Nord Stream pipeline company and a major stockholder.<ref>https://www.politico.eu/article/opinion-schroders-russian-sell-out/</ref> 

The pipeline directly undercuts Germany's efforts to meet [[Paris Climate Agreement]] targets.  The pipeline is intended to bail out Germany’s failed energy policies that first tilted [[left]] toward [[Green energy]], and when it failed, Germany went back to high polluting [[coal]]. [[France]] opposed this deal.  President [[Emmanuel Macron]] repeatedly publicly told Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]] that he opposed it.  European countries opposed it because they don’t want Russia to impose hegemonic influence. Ukrainian [[President Volodymyr Zelensky]] accused the Biden junta of handing Putin a "weapon,"  

 

In May 2021 [[Joe Biden]] waived sanctions against the project and its CEO, Matthias Warnig,<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/18/biden-sanctions-nord-stream-pipeline-489437</ref> a former [[East German]] [[Stasi]] agent who partnered with the [[KGB]] while[[Vladimir Putin]] served in [[Berlin]] in the 1980s.<ref>https://www.dw.com/en/who-is-nord-streams-matthias-warnig-putins-friend-from-east-germany/a-56328159</ref>  The waivers were issued only one week after a cyberattack emanating from Russia shut down the Colonial Pipeline, resulting in shortages and gas lines in the eastern United States—for which Biden absolved Putin before an investigation started.<ref>https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/05/20/what-we-know-about-darkside-the-russian-hacker-group-that-just-wrecked-havoc-on-the-east-coast/</ref>  The reversal of Trump-era policies made Biden appear to be a Putin puppet.<ref>https://dennismichaellynch.com/daily-newsletter/</ref> CDMedia reported,

{{quotebox-float|"CDMedia wrote in the summer before the 2020 election about Joe Biden, and his energy and gas genius son [[Hunter Biden|Hunter]], meeting with Russian gas executives in the United States, weeks after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, and Obama/Biden were crowing in the news about how America needs to ‘get tough on Russia’....The ‘tough on Russia’ thing is a hoax. Biden just ensured billions of hydrocarbon revenue for the [[Kremlin]]. He just weakened the [[NATO]] alliance."<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2021/05/20/biden-is-not-tough-on-russia-quite-the-opposite/</ref>}}

The pipeline directly undercuts Germany's efforts to meet [[Paris Climate Agreement]] targets. Ukrainian [[President Volodymyr Zelensky]] accused the Biden junta of handing a "weapon,"  

{{quotebox|"This is a weapon, a real weapon … in the hands of the [[Russian Federation]].  It is not very understandable … that the bullets to this weapon can possibly be provided by such a great country as the [[United States]].  How many Ukrainian lives does the relationship between the United States and Germany cost?"<ref>https://www.axios.com/zelensky-biden-ukraine-russia-nord-stream-pipeline-fe50756b-6b82-43f0-b390-734ea3e95de0.html</ref>}}

{{quotebox|"This is a weapon, a real weapon … in the hands of the [[Russian Federation]].  It is not very understandable … that the bullets to this weapon can possibly be provided by such a great country as the [[United States]].  How many Ukrainian lives does the relationship between the United States and Germany cost?"<ref>https://www.axios.com/zelensky-biden-ukraine-russia-nord-stream-pipeline-fe50756b-6b82-43f0-b390-734ea3e95de0.html</ref>}}

==Donbas war==

==Donbas war==

The US Foreign Policy establishment is not happy about these developments. They don’t want Germany to become more dependent on Russian gas because commerce builds trust and trust leads to the expansion of trade. As relations grow warmer, more trade barriers are lifted, regulations are eased, travel and tourism increase, and a new security architecture evolves. In a world where Germany and Russia are friends and trading partners, there is no need for US military bases, no need for expensive US-made weapons and missile systems, and no need for [[NATO]]. There’s also no need to transact energy deals in US Dollars or to stockpile US Treasuries to balance accounts. Transactions between business partners can be conducted in their own currencies which is bound to precipitate a sharp decline in the value of the dollar and a dramatic shift in economic power. This is why the [[Biden administration]] opposes Nord Stream. It’s not just a pipeline, it’s a window into the future; a future in which Europe and Asia are drawn closer together into a massive free trade zone that increases their mutual power and prosperity while leaving the US on the outside looking in. Warmer relations between Germany and Russia signal an end to the “unipolar” world order the US has overseen for the last 75 years. A German-Russo alliance threatens to hasten the decline of the Superpower that is presently inching closer to the abyss. This is why Washington is determined to do everything it can to sabotage Nord Stream and keep Germany within its orbit. It’s a matter of survival.}}

The US Foreign Policy establishment is not happy about these developments. They don’t want Germany to become more dependent on Russian gas because commerce builds trust and trust leads to the expansion of trade. As relations grow warmer, more trade barriers are lifted, regulations are eased, travel and tourism increase, and a new security architecture evolves. In a world where Germany and Russia are friends and trading partners, there is no need for US military bases, no need for expensive US-made weapons and missile systems, and no need for [[NATO]]. There’s also no need to transact energy deals in US Dollars or to stockpile US Treasuries to balance accounts. Transactions between business partners can be conducted in their own currencies which is bound to precipitate a sharp decline in the value of the dollar and a dramatic shift in economic power. This is why the [[Biden administration]] opposes Nord Stream. It’s not just a pipeline, it’s a window into the future; a future in which Europe and Asia are drawn closer together into a massive free trade zone that increases their mutual power and prosperity while leaving the US on the outside looking in. Warmer relations between Germany and Russia signal an end to the “unipolar” world order the US has overseen for the last 75 years. A German-Russo alliance threatens to hasten the decline of the Superpower that is presently inching closer to the abyss. This is why Washington is determined to do everything it can to sabotage Nord Stream and keep Germany within its orbit. It’s a matter of survival.}}

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