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US President Donald Trump said he has been in favor of abandoning the Nord Stream 2 pipeline since the beginning of his presidency. According to him, “America protects Germany from Russia” and Berlin pays Moscow billions for energy resources.
US President Donald Trump supported the rejection of the Nord Stream 2 project due to the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This was stated in a press conference on September 7, a fragment of his speech. published on the White House Twitter page.
“Of course you do,” Trump responded when asked by a reporter if he agreed with the idea of abandoning this project in response to the Navalny poisoning. The US president said that he had been in favor of abandoning the gas pipeline project since the beginning of his presidency, since “the United States is protecting Germany from Russia, and Berlin pays Moscow billions of dollars for energy resources.”
“How does it work?” – the president was outraged.
At the same time, Trump noted that he was not sure Germany was ready to abandon Nord Stream 2.
“They are giving up coal and nuclear power. They are putting themselves in a very bad position,” Trump said.
Nord Stream 2 is supposed to link Russia with Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The length of the route is more than 1200 km, the capacity of the new gas pipeline will be 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The project has a value of 9.5 billion euros and is financed by the Russian Gazprom and five European companies: the Anglo-Dutch Shell, the German Wintershall and Uniper, the French Engie and the Austrian OMV.
Construction of the gas pipeline was expected to be completed by the end of 2019, but then the launch of Nord Stream 2 was postponed until the end of 2020.
The construction of the gas pipeline was frozen after, in December 2019, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed the country’s defense budget for 2020, which provided for the introduction of sanctions against the Turkish Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines. Immediately after that, the Swiss company Allseas suspended construction works on Nord Stream 2 and withdrew its pipe-laying vessels from the Baltic Sea.
July 21 House of Representatives, United States House of Representatives, approved the budget of the Ministry of Defense for fiscal year 2021, which provides for new sanctions against Nord Stream 2. July 23 defense budget draft approved by the Senate.
Gazprom has attracted Russian pipelayers to complete the project.
On September 1, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Nord Stream 2 would be completed despite threats from the United States.
The regular plane, in which Navalny was returning to Moscow after a trip to Siberia, made an emergency landing in Omsk on 20 August due to the probable poisoning of the politician.
Navalny was unconscious in the toxic intensive care unit of the emergency hospital number 1 in Omsk, he was connected to a ventilator. Navalny’s main work diagnosis at the Russian hospital was called metabolic disorder.
Initially, Russian doctors did not allow the opponent to go to Germany for treatment, but then gave permission for transport: on the morning of August 22, Navalny was airlifted to the Charite clinic in Berlin.
Traces of a nerve agent similar in composition to Novichok were found on Navalny’s body. This is stated in a statement by the representative of the German government Steffen Seibert.
Doctors at the Charite clinic announced on September 7 that Navalny had been brought out of a medical coma and disconnected from the ventilator. The Russian politician began to react to the verbal stimuli.
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