{"id":61397,"date":"2022-01-10T12:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T17:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61397"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T17:32:33","slug":"ukraine-pushes-us-senators-to-vote-for-sanctions-on-german-russian-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61397","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Pushes US Senators to Vote for Sanctions on German-Russian Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/01\/09\/ukraine-pushes-us-senators-to-vote-for-sanctions-on-russia-pipeline\/\">Ukraine Pushes US Senators to Vote for Sanctions on German-Russian Pipeline<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span class=\"pagesub\">Officials say Nord Stream 2 is &#8216;an existential threat&#8217; to Ukraine<\/span><\/strong><\/header>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is to get a vote this week on a bill to sanction Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The pipeline is a key way for Russia to ship energy to Western Europe, notably Germany.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Ukrainian officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/nord-stream-sanctions-ukraine-russia-c1e2b76b-5671-4a25-b48d-6bff21d2de20.html\">are heavily lobbying US senators to vote for the sanctions<\/a>, claiming the pipeline amounts to \u201can existential threat\u201d to Ukrainian interests. Ukrainians added that supporting them necessarily means opposing the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, Russia exported gas to Europe through Ukraine. They believed they needed a direct line because Ukraine has a large unpaid gas debt, and Russian companies expressed concern that shipping that way would\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2009\/jan\/03\/russia-ukraine-gas-supplies-gazprom\">encourage Ukrainian companies to try to siphon off some<\/a>\u00a0of that gas.<\/p>\n<p>German officials support the pipeline and are warning the US against getting involved. Chancellor Scholz called the pipeline a \u201cprivate sector project,\u201d and said targeting it would not be suitable as a way to go after Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine Pushes US Senators to Vote for Sanctions on German-Russian Pipeline Officials say Nord Stream 2 is &#8216;an existential threat&#8217; to Ukraine Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is to get a vote this week on a bill to sanction Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The pipeline is a key way for Russia to ship energy 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":[6400,13009,21872,821,827],"class_list":["post-61397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-antiwar-com","tag-jason-ditz","tag-nordstream-2","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61397","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=61397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61398,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61397\/revisions\/61398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}