[Skybird]

As I repeatedly said , and linked to articles, Poland has its own desire to become a "gas hub" for Europe, and benefitting for it, it wants to create terminals for US tankers and then distribute their load via its own Polish pipeline project to Western Europe, milking the coins and having a hand on the valves.

Nord Stream 2 is not expected to become a major pipeline, more a fallback-to option, namely to bypass the notoriously unsafe Ukraine, that is an unreliable "partner". It cannot be allowed to have the Ukraine be left in that position where it could seriously interrupt the supply to Europe - and this already has happened repeately years ago when the Ukraine stole gas form the transit, did not pay its bills in Russia, and Russia therefore reducing the delivery volumes until the EU made the Ukraine paying its obligations.

The American claims are pretensions, for alibi, only. The fracking industry in the US has invested billions, produced a gas of inferior quality (high chemical intoxiocation levels due to the extraction process), it must therefore be cleaned by the customer again, and it takes a lot of additional energry to cool it down so that it actually can be shipped once it is in a liquified state. The American price demands last time I checked were 30-40% above global market prices for liquid gas. Meanwhile the prices have plummeted, causing havoc in the US fracking industry. The driving powers behind the bipartisan effort in America to force the Europeans to accept this very bad deal for them, were the Republican governors of two states where the industry is big and the investments were big as well and both were close Trump allies at that time when it started.


It is unacceptable that the Americans imply that they have the right to set the rules by which other sovereign nations must play ball to support American interests, andnthat they even threaten individuals with persecution, globally. In fact the bullying, black mailing and threatful behavior that America already practices right now is what they accuse the Russians of what they would maybe do if Europe would depend on them. The American deed is reality, the accusation of what the Russians would do, is just American prediction and US claim. Or better: fearmongering. The Russians have always honoured their business contracts with Western Europe - even at the very height of the cold war.

The American position is extremely transparent and their opportunistic egoism is obvious, and it has little to do with saving Europe from the blackmailing Russians. America wants to force europe to buy its inferior quality gas for overpriced costs, and it has nothing against European dependency in the energy market - as long as it is dependency from US deliveries, which would be ideal, from washington's standpoint.
Russia is the biggest single exporter of energy in Europe, yes, but the European energy market has been diversified over the past one and a half decade sufficiently that even a full stop of Russian deliveries could cause problems, but no threatening breakdown in Europe, and the diversification moves on, still, with renewables pushign more and more into the market. I have my own criticism regarding that, since Germany has neither Austrias nor Sweden's natural conditions to support renewables in an ideal way, but that is a different story.

Sorry, Rockstar, but after the past years not many are left over here who trust your country and its politics anymore. The US has lost that trustworthiness and credibility, and you have only yourself to blame for that. And despite all that handshaking and smiling that will go on between Europe and Biden, Biden will continue with America First, and most European nations will not trust you as much anymore. If we have learned one lesson from the past years, then this: that our bigger problem is not the Russians being unpredictable to us, they aren't, but America. Poland and the baltic states suppoort your stand, yes, the Poles for financial own interest because they want to have that position that Germany now is establishing as a future option for itsself, bypassing Poland, the Baltic states because they are closer located to Russia and they would like to have, despite their small size and strategic low relevance, a controlling finger on the pulse of lifejuice to the EU. And right that is the reason why Germany pushed Nord Stream 2 forward, to deny them this powerful position. We have a lot of political problems with the Polish state already now, and the confrontation between Brussels and Warzaw is obvious. You said the EU is all against the Germans. Well, the EU and the other member states nevertheless waved the project through, and single states who were directly concerned and involved nevertheless accepted the German position and denied Washington the resistance to it that Washington demanded them to show. Last were the Danish onece again,who send Pompeo home with empty hands when he travdelled there a few months ago and demanded them to not allow construction continuing in their waters.

You are not coming to our rescue when you save us from Nord Stream 2, Rockstar. You move for the rescue of your own suffering fracking industry, and we should bail you out of your losses. We did you a friends service, years ago already, however, we told you again and again that frakcing is no good idea, not economically, and not ecologically. You did not listen and knew it better. And there we are now. You with your selfmade problems, and we with the problems you raise to us. Thanks for that.



You are eying your own financial profits - that profane it is. The choice of methods however is completely unacceptable and illustrates an almost totalitarian claim for all world being under your command, and in the long run you will not have done yourself a favor with that arrogance. It will not be forgotten over here, and will increase the alienation between European nations and the US, and will make its influence felt in future designing of our relations to your nation, will even make us potentially moving closer to Russia. We are warned, after four years of Trump. You have not overcome our "stubborness", but you made us being more on our guard - against you. Congratulations again. Anti-americanism has always been present in Europe and in Germany, where many people traditonally are somewhat "closer" to Russia than to America (not that I defend that Russopohilia, I havew little illusioins about the Russian state'S interests), but in the past four years it has blossomed tremendously. You gave us plenty of good reasons for that.

Lets face it, the old post war order is dead and over, and egoism and comparisons of brute force will increasingly define relations between the blocks - even between the former allies Europe and America. Trump served as a fantasticc catalyst for this, accelerating it up to breathtaking speeds.

We have learned to be on the watch against you. Trump acchieved in four years what the French have tried for five decades to achieve. If that is not ironic - especially the French, mon dieux...


P.S. The only valid concern is that of the pipeline'S vulnerability to external phsical hazuards, like ship anchors and ammunition going off. But I have no trustworthy information myself that woudkl allow me to form an educated opinion on these risks, and I certainly would not believe information from sides having strong own interests in or against this project. Therefore, I leave this point completely uncommented.


P.P.S. Both the EU commission and the heads of EU states during a meeting, labelled the American blackmailing and threatening as a violation of international law, and explicitly brandmarked it as this, using no diplomatic language. The legal experts of the EU and the Bundestag both agreed in their assessment that that is what it is: a violation of international law.