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The U.S. wanted a huge piece of the oil action in Russia in 2003 and got rejected: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/10/03/russia.yukos/ http://edition.cnn.
by jrpost 4y ago
The U.S. wanted a huge piece of the oil action in Russia in 2003 and got rejected:
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/10/03/russia.yukos/ http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/10/03/russia.yukos/
It seems to me that the U.S. wanted to be "extremely reliant on known bad actor Russia". Is Nord Stream perhaps sour grapes for the U.S.?
- gilbetron 4y agoThe US wanted to get cheap Russian oil, but that wouldn't have made them reliant on Russia, as the US has plenty of their own. It was simple economics.
- klqwant 4y agoThe U.S. has trouble with energy prices right now without that huge dependency. Certainly it would be worse if that deal (and other deals following) had gone through. It would not have been a 100% dependency, but neither is Nord Stream for Germany.