{"id":46358,"date":"2019-05-25T11:35:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T16:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46358"},"modified":"2019-05-25T11:35:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T16:35:04","slug":"sanctions-or-sucking-up-us-grovels-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46358","title":{"rendered":"Sanctions or Sucking Up? US Grovels in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sanctions or Sucking Up? US Grovels in Ukraine\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The US sent Energy Secretary Rick Perry to the inauguration of the new Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to announce the sanctions bill on Gazprom\u2019s Nordstream 2 pipeline would pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t tell what\u2019s more pathetic at this point, the neocons in Trump\u2019s administration thinking that sanctions actually achieve their goals or using them to suck up to a new president they don\u2019t actively control yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about this. Perry goes to Kiev for nothing more than a photo op to assure Zelenskiy that the US won\u2019t abandon the struggle stick it to the Russians. He does this with no sense of shame or irony after spending five years destroying Ukraine with an ill-advised coup which ushered in the chaos that brought Zelenskiy to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hypocrisy of it all is stunning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outgoing US puppet Petro Poroshenko was such a disaster that Ukrainians voted 3 to 1 to get rid of him in favor of a political neophyte and television comic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s how badly the US has mismanaged Ukrainian post-coup affairs. And the Russians are supposed to be the bad guys in this scenario?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now Perry is going to virtue signal that the US will sanction Nordstream 2 to keep their access to Ukraine\u2019s highest office? Zelenskiy may be a neophyte but he\u2019s not stupid either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US\u2019s opposition to Nordstream 2 is mainly for its own purposes. Just like its interest in Ukraine is purely selfish. President Trump wants the gas volumes slated for Nordstream 2 to go to US LNG exporters first. Ukraine isn\u2019t all that important in the end to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stopping Nordstream 2 is supposed to do two things. Force Russia to the bargaining table with Naftogaz, the Ukrainian state gas transit company, and cut a new deal since the old one is expiring at the end of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sanctions or Sucking Up? US Grovels in Ukraine\u00a0 The US sent Energy Secretary Rick Perry to the inauguration of the new Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to announce the sanctions bill on Gazprom\u2019s Nordstream 2 pipeline would pass. I can\u2019t tell what\u2019s more pathetic at this point, the neocons in Trump\u2019s administration thinking that sanctions actually […]<\/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":[281,18975,8203],"class_list":["post-46358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-europe","tag-nord-stream-2","tag-strategic-culture-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46358","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=46358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46359,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46358\/revisions\/46359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}