Russian Foreign minister [[Sergey Lavrov]] remarked, “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 [[corporation]]s...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.” | Russian Foreign minister [[Sergey Lavrov]] remarked, “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 [[corporation]]s...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.” |