KYIV, Ukraine—With the Kremlin tightening its grip on the
European energy market, the U.S. has hardened its opposition to a controversial
Russian gas pipeline, which is currently under construction through the Baltic
Sea to Germany.
For months, U.S. officials have said Russia’s Nord Stream 2
pipeline is part of a broader Kremlin gambit to bypass Ukrainian transit
pipelines, which have delivered the lion’s share of Russian natural gas exports
to Europe for decades.
Yet, despite U.S. protests, construction hasn’t stopped, and the
750-mile-long pipeline is about one-third complete as of this article’s
publication. The U.S., for its part, escalated its resistance to the project
this month, when U.S. Ambassador to Germany …read more
Source: The Daily Signal
