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How Vladimir Putin made gas a weapon of power and diplomacy

2021-03-31T17:59:00.596Z


INVESTIGATION - The exports of energy resources and the Nord Stream project are a way for the Kremlin to exert its influence in Europe and to influence the transatlantic relationship.


Europe expected to spend four years with a "Sleepy Joe" and ultimately ended up with a sharp, self-confident and domineering US president who would instead deserve the nickname "Sniper Joe".

It is Germany, yet the most allergic to Donald Trump, which seems the most destabilized by Joe Biden's first international policy decisions.

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It is a real ultimatum which was launched last month by the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, to the “

entities

” engaged in the Nord Stream 2 project which, if they do not withdraw “

immediately

” from the Russian gas pipeline, will

withdraw.

will see sanctions imposed.

The American Secretary of State has personally reiterated to the head of German diplomacy, Heiko Maas, the American opposition to this project of doubling Russian gas exports via Germany, so that the subject does not suffer from any "

ambiguity

".

He denounces "

a Russian geopolitical project aimed at dividing Europe and weakening European energy security

".

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Source: lefigaro

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