The controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project will definitely be completed this year, Viktor Zubkov, chairman of the board of directors of Russia's gas giant Gazprom, said on Friday.
"The active work is underway, with quite a bit remaining to be done," Zubkov told reporters, as carried by Russian news agency TASS.
"It will surely be completed this year, definitely," Zubkov noted.
Around 90-92 percent of the work required for the project has already been done, the Gazprom executive said.
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WNU Editor: This is a good explanation on why Germany wants this project completed despite US objections .... Why Putin’s Pipeline Is Welcome in Germany (Patrick Buchanan).
Germany has never forgiven the US for WW2.
ReplyDeleteThus we had Germany's OstPolitik and RealPolitik. From Willi Brandt to Angela Merkel lazy German politicians want to show that they have put on their big boy pants on and can go it alone with their toy army. It is delusional and ungrateful. We have many delusional and ungrateful politicians in Washington also, so it is not solely a German disease.
Buchanan lays out 3 reasons why the US objects #1 and #3 are solid reasons. Number 2 is not a good reason at all for the Germans. Germans have a budget too. To borrow the excrement vocabulary of the Left, some of them are experiencing fuel poverty due to the Green energy policies of the selfish and foolish. I think it would be cheaper and more reliable to pipe that gas from Russia than to ship it from America. It would also be safer. At home we tell crazy ass liberals that the Keystone pipeline is safer than trucking oil or shipping by rail car. In reply, all we hear is laughter of Warren Buffet making another huge bank deposit and denials by liberal furies and harpies.
Reason #1 is interesting. If a pipeline crosses the EEZ of a country, should it not pay a transit tax? Maybe Maritime law says no. It looks as though the pipeline might be within 12 miles of Tallinn or the coast their. Maybe Estonia could collect a transit tax instead of Poland. And promptly get invaded!
Number 3 is a very good reason not to buy form the Russians. Germany could still be burning coal for a while and operate nuclear power plants. They could also in prove their fucking energy grid, so they could transmit wind power from northern Germany to southern Germany. They are such believers in wind power and then they pull that shit.
I have an East German uncle. He escaped commie pinko land and settled in West Germany. Since they would not accept his commie degree, he could not make a decent living in West Germany. So he came to America and bitched about America. He went back to Germany and was back within a year. He became a multi-millionaire in America. Yeah, America is that bad. Awful! Notice that my uncle did not leave East Germany for the fabulous USSR. Or Poland, Or Bulgaria ...
I think Russia should be an ally in face of the CCP threat. I do not see how it would happen. Nancy Pelosi Chuck U. Schumer, Joe Biden et all could divide their brats into two halves and set up one half to rule in Washington and the other half to rule in Moscow and after a number of years, Russia would still be the enemy. That is how oligarchies work.
Germany should not be taking Russian gas. But if they do and in a war Russia shuts off the valves in the pipeline, it is time to go nuclear. Battle of Jutland proved that.
The Baltic Sea is a shallow sea. Why don't the Estoni9an or Swedes take a page out of the Chinese playbook and place dry land over the pipeline and collect transit taxes from Moscow?
ReplyDeleteI look at NS2 as Germany’s Declaration of Independence from the USA. Once it’s completed Germany will treat the USA as just another power center to balance, no different from China, Russia or Turkey.
ReplyDeleteGermany ain't balancing shit. Germany can do no more than John Connor could do by himself in Terminator 2.
ReplyDeleteGermany cannot admit to itself that it is being used by France. France and Germany have 2 different conflicting views of the EU.
Like John Connor telling a group of young men to take a hike, Germany can only operate, because of a permissive environment of Pax American, which is ending.
Like the T-1000 the Russia may be reassembling to the size of the USSR.
Merkel has ever had only four jobs, Chemistry prof, politician, snitch and propagandist. Many of her German peers have less illustrious resumes. Merkel is too stupid to know what to do.