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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).
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]]. European countries opposed it because they don’t want Russia to impose hegemonic influence. [[French]] President [[Emmanuel Macron]] repeatedly publicly told Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]] that he opposed it. Ukrainian [[President Volodymyr Zelensky]] accused the Biden junta of handing Putin a "weapon,"
{{quotebox-float|"The only way left for U.S. diplomats to block European purchases [of Russian gas] is to goad Russia into a military response and then claim that avenging this response outweighs any purely national economic interest. As hawkish Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, [[Victoria Nuland]], explained in a State Department press briefing on January 27 [2022]: “If Russia invades Ukraine one way or another [[Nord Stream 2]] will not move forward.” The problem is to create a suitably offensive incident and depict Russia as the aggressor.<ref>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/michael-hudson-americas-real-adversaries-are-its-european-and-other-allies.html</ref>}}
==Donbas war==
==Donbas war==
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 [[Dresden]] 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,
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 [[Dresden]] 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>}}
{{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. 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]]. European countries opposed it because they don’t want Russia to impose hegemonic influence. [[French]] President [[Emmanuel Macron]] repeatedly publicly told Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]] that he opposed it. Ukrainian [[President Volodymyr Zelensky]] accused the Biden junta of handing Putin 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>}}
==References==
==References==