{"id":59275,"date":"2021-09-11T11:15:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T16:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59275"},"modified":"2021-09-11T11:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T16:15:38","slug":"nord-stream-2-pipeline-fully-completed-russia-celebrates-failure-of-us-efforts-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59275","title":{"rendered":"Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Fully Completed &#8211; Russia Celebrates &#8216;Failure&#8217; Of US Efforts To Stop It"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"sidebar-left SidebarLeft_container__JPgco\">\n<div class=\"ZeroHedgeReads_container__lxiKL\">\n<div class=\"ZeroHedgeReads_listControl__2CN3h\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><main class=\"main-content\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"ArticleFull_container__2-yXg\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"10198449\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"10198449\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__11o5_\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__2cUI6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/energy\/nord-stream-2-pipeline-complete-russia-celebrates-failure-us-efforts-stop-it\">Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Fully Completed &#8211; Russia Celebrates &#8216;Failure&#8217; Of US Efforts To Stop It<\/a><\/h3>\n<footer class=\"ArticleFull_headerFooter__2Nt6Y\">\n<div class=\"ArticleFull_headerFooter__date__3T7FN\">Russia&#8217;s state-controlled gas giant Gazprom has announced on Friday it has completed construction on the Nord Stream 2 Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline that the United States has long warred against through sanctions leveled by the Trump and Biden administrations.<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__38L44\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p>&#8220;Chairman of the Management Committee Alexei Miller said that this morning at 8.45 Moscow time (05:45 GMT)\u00a0<strong>construction of the\u00a0Nord Stream 2\u00a0gas pipeline was fully completed<\/strong>,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/gazprom\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Gazprom<\/a>\u00a0announced on its social media accounts Friday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/ns2complete.jpg?itok=I-DR1Uys\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c9240bb7-d7e0-4e6d-8278-d6e5cbcbe424\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Workers on the laybarge Fortuna in German waters in the Baltic Sea celebrate completion, via Reuters.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"Advert_verticallySpaced__wnPy3\" data-google-query-id=\"CLW94dan9_ICFdEdhwodNxcL9g\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\">Russia hawks in Washington have lately put the blame on Joe Biden for softening the US stance on Nord Stream, after he <strong>dropped sanctions on the German company overseeing its side of the project<\/strong>, citing a desire to avoid harming positive relations with Berlin. In exchange Germany vowed to not allow Russia to use NS-2 as a\u00a0<strong>&#8220;political weapon&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his backers in Washington have accused Russia of pursuing the project in order to punish Kiev by cutting it out of essential natural gas transit fees that would normally be collected through its territory.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that since the project started in 2016, Russia became ever more determined as US sanctions seeking to halt the project grew &#8211; at one point even outfitting Gazprom ships to become pipe-laying vessels after a European company bowed out.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week\u00a0Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/534438-nord-stream-2-finished\/\">declared<\/a>\u00a0<strong>efforts by the US to stop construction through political pressure and sanctions an utter failure<\/strong>. He said &#8220;there is still a full-frontal attack, in spite of everything, on Nord Stream 2,&#8221; even though &#8220;everyone knows the Americans have realized [it will be completed].&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=true&amp;id=1436233745992880145&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fenergy%2Fnord-stream-2-pipeline-complete-russia-celebrates-failure-us-efforts-stop-it&amp;sessionId=ccb8f00230990ba28d5956b5be21d2f41c0f212e&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1436233745992880145\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Fully Completed &#8211; Russia Celebrates &#8216;Failure&#8217; Of US Efforts To Stop It Russia&#8217;s state-controlled gas giant Gazprom has announced on Friday it has completed construction on the Nord Stream 2 Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline that the United States has long warred against through sanctions leveled by the Trump and Biden administrations. &#8220;Chairman [&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":[281,20727,31755,827,4318],"class_list":["post-59275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-europe","tag-nord-stream-2-pipeline","tag-russigazprom","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59275","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=59275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}