Very good comment. It also boils down to geopolitical economic power. If the US starts exporting LNG to Europe, that completely changes the power dynamic regard

Very good comment. It also boils down to geopolitical economic power. If the US starts exporting LNG to Europe, that completely changes the power dynamic regarding Russia in general and Ukraine / Crimea in particular. Gazprom has always strived for a monopoly on European energy supplies, and the politicians in Brussels would rather not be dependent on one (somewhat abusive) supplier. They (US & EU politicos) will talk big about climate change in public of course, but their strategy and calculations in private can go a very different direction.