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What a conflict of interest. The US pressuring Germany not to build that pipeline to Russia while at the same time peddling their own gas at a much higher price

What a conflict of interest. The US pressuring Germany not to build that pipeline to Russia while at the same time peddling their own gas at a much higher price. I don't see how it is any of the US business where a sovereign nation builds their pipelines. We don't want war, the Ukraine doesn't want war and neither does Russia. But for what ever reason it is the US and UK that are escalating this conflict when it is diplomacy that we need. This may not be in the US backyard but it is in mine. The left and right in the US are hell bent on this war and as a European it is discusting what is currently happening.

finiteseries 5y ago
Germany is a single country in Europe (many countries). Nordstream 2 is a single unfinished pipeline in a network (many pipelines). Neither were mentioned (pipeline no flow = no cut, Germany != Europe).
- raxxorrax 5y ago
  It is actually finished now, it just isn't used because of political tensions. They have no operating license in Germany yet. The pipeline itself wouldn't be needed because NS1 would have enough capacity for the immediate future. Although Russia capped the throughput for political reasons as well.
credit_guy 5y ago
> while at the same time peddling their own gas at a much higher price. The US is not a monolith. The price of US-produced natural gas is not negotiated, controlled, or manipulated by the US Government. Natural gas is extracted by private companies, hundreds of them, some in the US, many outside the US (for example Quatar). And when you are saying "much higher price", do you have any numbers to back that up? I just googled a bit, and it seems to me the futures for LNG with delivery on the Gulf Coast are much lower than the nat gas price in Europe.
rasz 5y ago
>doesn't want war and neither does Russia You are factually correct. Russia doesnt want war, they just want Ukraine territory.

finiteseries 5y ago

Germany is a single country in Europe (many countries). Nordstream 2 is a single unfinished pipeline in a network (many pipelines). Neither were mentioned (pipeline no flow = no cut, Germany != Europe).

raxxorrax 5y ago
It is actually finished now, it just isn't used because of political tensions. They have no operating license in Germany yet. The pipeline itself wouldn't be needed because NS1 would have enough capacity for the immediate future. Although Russia capped the throughput for political reasons as well.

credit_guy 5y ago

> while at the same time peddling their own gas at a much higher price. The US is not a monolith. The price of US-produced natural gas is not negotiated, controlled, or manipulated by the US Government. Natural gas is extracted by private companies, hundreds of them, some in the US, many outside the US (for example Quatar). And when you are saying "much higher price", do you have any numbers to back that up? I just googled a bit, and it seems to me the futures for LNG with delivery on the Gulf Coast are much lower than the nat gas price in Europe.

rasz 5y ago

>doesn't want war and neither does Russia You are factually correct. Russia doesnt want war, they just want Ukraine territory.