US wants to bury Russian gas pipeline project & force-feed its own LNG to Europe

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Washington intends to stop the construction of the extension of the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany, and become Europe’s key gas supplier, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned on Thursday.

 “The most pragmatic position is the position of the United States of America, which wants to bury this project with all sorts of legal decisions, instruments, sanctions, having an unambiguous impact on the European Union, Medvedev said at a meeting with Finnish counterpart Juha Sipila.

Such pragmatism can be explained by the interests of the US Congress to force-feed American gas to Europe, ousting Russia, Medvedev said.

He said that Finland has taken a “very constructive position regarding Nord Stream-2,” by regarding it as a commercial project.

The Nord Stream-2 pipeline will double the delivery capacity of the existing Nord Stream pipeline from the current 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The pipeline has faced…

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Putin Stumps The Trump! Russia And China Decline To Join USA’s UN Reform

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When Trump hurriedly gathered vassals for the impromptu UN summit, whose goal was to twist everyone’s arm so they would sign a declaration of the UN reform without looking, Putin chose to attend Zapad 2017 joint Russia-Belarus army drills. Incidentally, almost at the same time, there was also joint Russia-China military exercise. Coincidence? Perhaps not..

The Western hysteria surrounding the inflated number of troops at Zapad 2017 exercise and the supposed imminent attack by Russia against the EU vassals is another story, so silly and disgusting that I don’t even feel like bringing it up. I might still talk about Zapad 2017 Russia-Belarus joint exercise and what it really means, in a separate piece.

This one right now is about Trump’s ‘UN reform.’ Trump needs a win, any perceived win — desperately. He needs to show that he is a ‘real American president’ and the big boss. The wins have been elusive, to…

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