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NordStream 2 splits the Western World<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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If we were to paint the current situation with a broad brush, we would receive the following simplified picture. The European Union is split into two camps: the old and new member states. The West is split across the Atlantic: it is \u2013 roughly \u2013 Washington against Paris and Berlin. The world is split into three rivalling superpowers: the United States (strong military and strong economy), Russia (strong military, weak economy) and China (weak military, strong economy). Western Europe gravitates more to Russia than Eastern Europe does; Eastern Europe in turn gravitates more to the United States than Western Europe does.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state of affairs on the Old Continent is as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/strong> Germany wants a stable energy supply in the form of natural gas and from among a number of providers it has decided on Russia because<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/strong> Russia has large natural gas deposits and being in need of hard currency is willing to sell its energy resources to any bidder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/strong> Germany and Russia countries entered a commercial agreement which resulted in the construction and completion of one pipeline laid on the bottom of the Baltic: NordStream 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/strong> Since the capacity of one pipeline was not sufficient to satisfy the needs of Germany and other West European states, another agreement was concluded to build a second pipe along the bottom of the Baltic \u2013 NordStream 2 \u2013 which is now near completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/strong> Both pipelines sidetrack eastern European countries \u2013 Ukraine, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia \u2013 which makes them alarmed because soon Russia will be able to cut off its gas supplies to and through those countries \u2013 the Yamal (Poland, Belarus) and Brotherhood (Czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine) pipelines \u2013 while continuing the provision of gas to Western Europe, thus breaking the economic solidarity of the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NordStream 2 splits the Western World If we were to paint the current situation with a broad brush, we would receive the following simplified picture. The European Union is split into two camps: the old and new member states. The West is split across the Atlantic: it is \u2013 roughly \u2013 Washington against Paris and […]<\/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":[284,6974,21872,1729,694],"class_list":["post-54487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-european-union","tag-gefira","tag-nordstream-2","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54487","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=54487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54488,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54487\/revisions\/54488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}