{"id":39697,"date":"2018-10-26T06:13:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39697"},"modified":"2018-10-26T06:13:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:13:47","slug":"germany-admits-it-needs-more-from-russia-than-nordstream-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39697","title":{"rendered":"Germany Admits it Needs More from Russia than Nordstream 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/10\/25\/germany-admits-need-russia-nordstream-2\/\">Germany Admits it Needs More from Russia than Nordstream 2<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>During the years the U.S. and its satraps in Poland and the Baltics fought the Nordstream 2 pipeline it was always apparent Germany was in the driver\u2019s seat.\u00a0 It was also apparent that this would be the wedge issue that would ultimately force Germany to pursue independent policy from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Nordstream 2 is and was always a reaction to the U.S.\u2019s meddling in Europe\u2019s energy policy which this cycle of began with the scuttling of the South Stream pipeline in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>From the EU\u2019s perspective changing the rules under which South Stream would operate after the contracts for it were signed was a way of gaining leverage over Russia and Gazprom.\u00a0 So too was the help protesters in Kiev received to overthrow the Yanukovich government from the U.S. and the EU.<\/p>\n<p>That operation was meant to put the Ukrainian pipelines under EU control where they could dictate terms to Gazprom and choke the profit out of its gas deliveries.\u00a0 It would also advance NATO and the EU to Russia\u2019s western border and there was to be nothing Putin could do to stop the U.S. from putting nukes targeting Moscow there.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad for them it didn\u2019t work out that way.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the reasons why the U.S. is so incensed with Russia and Putin over Ukraine.\u00a0 It\u2019s why his chickenhawks in his cabinet and John McCain pushed so hard for sanctions and weapons support to Ukraine before the dearly-departed Brain Tumor killed him.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the other was being stymied in taking over Crimea and forever losing the opportunity to grab the port at Sevastopol.<\/p>\n<p>So, why the history lesson?<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany Admits it Needs More from Russia than Nordstream 2 During the years the U.S. and its satraps in Poland and the Baltics fought the Nordstream 2 pipeline it was always apparent Germany was in the driver\u2019s seat.\u00a0 It was also apparent that this would be the wedge issue that would ultimately force Germany to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[281,352,359,21273,1714,1190,21872,694,1558,16963,827],"class_list":["post-39697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-europe","tag-gazprom","tag-germany","tag-gold-goats-and-guns","tag-liquified-natural-gas","tag-lng","tag-nordstream-2","tag-russia","tag-south-stream","tag-tom-luongo","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39698,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39697\/revisions\/39698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}