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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Vladimir Putin suffered a major disappointed when the outcome of the United States’ 2020 presidential election resulted in Donald Trump being voted out of office and Joe Biden being chosen to replace him. During Biden’s first year as president, U.S./Russia relations are much icier than they were during the Trump years — and Biden is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/politics/us-troops-europe-russia/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">deploying 3000 U.S. troops to Europe</a>&nbsp;at a time when thousands of Russian troops are gathered at the Ukraine-Russia border and Biden’s administration, along with their NATO allies, fears that Ukraine will be invaded.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But reporter Anna Massoglia, in an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/02/russia-pouring-millions-into-foreign-influence-and-lobbying-targeting-the-u-s-amid-escalating-ukraine-conflict/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">article published by OpenSecrets</a>&nbsp;on<b> February 2, notes that “Russian interests” have been proceeding with a major foreign influence campaign aimed at both the U.S. and European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.</b> [twt]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During his four years in the White House, Trump was openly hostile to NATO but very favorable to Putin. Biden, on the other hand, campaigned on a very pro-NATO platform in 2020 — and as president, Biden has made it clear that he regards European NATO members as important allies of the United States. But despite all the anti-Putin feelings in the European Union, about&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/2/3/russia-ukraine-crisis-how-europe-may-cope-if-putin-shuts-off-gas" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">35% of the EU’s natural gas</a>&nbsp;comes from Russia. And Russia, according to Massoglia, is reminding the U.S. and the EU how much gas it is providing.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“As tensions escalate between Russia and Ukraine,” Massoglia explains, “Russia is pouring millions of dollars into foreign influence operations and propaganda. Russian interests reported spending about $182 million on lobbying, foreign influence operations and propaganda in the U.S. since 2016</b>, according to OpenSecrets’ analysis of Foreign Agents Registration Act and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/fara/background#not" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Lobbying Disclosure Act data</a>. Foreign agents working for Russian state media outlets spent $34.8 million on propaganda targeting the U.S. in 2021 alone.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Massoglia adds, “Companies whose interests align with Russia’s have spent heavily on lobbying around Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, which would deliver Russian natural gas to Germany while bypassing Ukraine. In the midst of the multi-million dollar lobbying fight, President Joe Biden waived sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in May 2021, and (Biden) Administration officials reportedly made calls urging senators to quash Nord Stream 2 sanction measures unless the White House has the power to waive the congressionally-mandated sanctions.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, a group of U.S. senators is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ROS22031.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">proposing a sanctions bill</a>&nbsp;that describes Nord Stream as a “tool of malign influence.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Foreign companies partnering on Nord Stream spent more than $6.8 million lobbying against sanctions and other issues related to the pipeline project since the start of 2020,” Massoglia observes. “Nord Stream 2, which is wholly-owned by Russia’s state-run energy firm Gazprom, spent nearly $3.3 million in 2021. Nord Stream’s CEO and Gazprom’s executive both are close Putin allies. Since the start of 2020, Nord Stream 2 has paid more than <b>$5 million to Roberti Global, a lobbying firm run by Democratic donor and lobbyist Vincent Roberti.”</b></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FF ceo ref mult times ~ energy independence&nbsp; yield mkt/production to dirty country foes russian venezuela&nbsp; iraq?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Biden’s pipeline gift to Putin</div><div>Washington Examiner - May 19</div><div>
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</div><div>President Joe Biden continues to be the best thing that ever happened to Vladimir Putin.</div><div>
</div><div>As a candidate, Biden pledged to get tough on Putin. Former President Donald Trump, Biden insisted, had appeased the former KGB lieutenant colonel to the great detriment of America’s closest allies and values. Now in office for five months, Biden’s former rhetoric bears stark contrast with his actual policies.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Biden this week gave the green light to a Russian pipeline across northern Europe with a huge strategic value to Putin every thinking person acknowledges.</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>The Nord Stream II natural gas pipeline is more than 90% completed, and Congress passed sanctions in early January designed to ensure it doesn’t get to 100%.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Putin needn’t have worried. Biden is unilaterally lifting those sanctions, giving Germany’s short-sightedness a thumbs-up and giving Putin a gift. In an absurd effort to disguise its <b>appeasement,</b> Biden’s State Department said it would sanction the ships involved in the concluding pipe laying process but not the actual operators of those ships. As you might assume, there is rather limited utility in sanctioning inanimate objects.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>But for Putin, there is great utility in what Biden has just done. Biden has licensed Putin to complete this centerpiece of his long-term European strategy by making Europe dependent on Russia for energy.</b></div><div>
</div><div>With the completion of Nord Stream II, Putin will be able to extract European political <b>appeasement of his global priorities as the price for his provision of winter heating.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The new pipeline will also allow Russia to undercut Ukrainian energy supplies to Europe, thus denying Kyiv billions in dollars in much-needed revenue. Even if only at the margin, Nord Stream II will reduce the viability of expanded U.S. liquid natural gas exports to Europe.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">And what might Putin want to get away with? Consider Russia’s sustained buildup of military forces on Ukraine’s borders. Or the recent Russian cyberattack on Annalena Baerbock, the Green Party leader and front-runner to replace Angela Merkel in Germany’s September federal elections. Or the identification of the Russian GRU intelligence service responsible for the 2014 detonation of two ammunition depots in the Czech Republic. That attack cost the lives of two innocent Czechs.</span></div><div>
</div><div>But we should stay for a moment with that name: Annalena Baerbock.</div><div>
</div><div>After all, Baerbock has said Nord Stream II is incompatible with European security. Seeing as Baerbock has outlined her position in clear public detail, we must assume the U.S. Embassy in Berlin made Washington aware of it. Why, then, did Biden not sustain the pipeline sanctions in recognition of Baerbock’s prospects?</div><div>
</div><div>The question deserves answering.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">What we do know is Biden’s rhetoric on Russia is very different than his Russian policy. It’s not just Nord Stream II<b>. In recent weeks, Biden has allowed Putin’s hackers to extort the Colonial Pipeline operators into a nearly $5 million ransom payment. </b>The Kremlin knows the U.S. intelligence community is aware these hackers operate under the supervision of the Russian FSB intelligence service. Yet, for whatever reason, Biden decided it was easier to abandon the Colonial Pipeline and accept fuel disruption across the East Coast rather than threaten Putin with retaliation.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Equally pathetic is Biden’s begging Putin for a one-on-one summit. This Trump-style pageantry</b> has seen national security adviser Jake Sullivan forced into numerous phone calls with his Moscow opposite, Nikolai Patrushev. The ringleader of Putin’s espionage, cyber, and assassination malevolence around the world, Patrushev must have reveled in <b>Washington’s humiliation</b>.</div><div>
</div><div>Humiliation certainly is the right word: Just a few weeks ago, Putin publicly questioned whether Biden is senile. Again, Biden doesn’t appear to care.</div><div>
</div><div>Where does this leave us?</div><div>
</div><div>Perhaps only with one sad but obvious truth. Biden’s "I’m-tough-on-Putin" shtick is simply preening to a press and a Democratic electorate invested in the <b>fantasy of Trump as a Russian asset.</b> Now that Biden is out of fantasy land, his tough talk has evaporated.</div><div>
</div><div>Tags: Editorials, Magazine - Editorial, Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, Nord Stream II</div><div>
</div><div>Original Author: Washington Examiner</div><div>
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</div><div>Biden waiving sanctions on Russian pipeline because ‘it’s almost completely finished’</div><div>By Mark Moore</div><div><b>May 26, 2021&nbsp;</b></div><div>
</div><div>President Joe Biden said that he has been opposed to Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, he will waive sanctions against it because "it’s almost completely finished."</div><div>
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</div><div><b>​President Biden says he decided to waive sanctions against the Russian-owned company behind the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany because “it’s almost completely finished.”</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Biden — who will sit down with Russian leader Vladimir Putin next month in Switzerland for the first time as president — was asked by reporters Tuesday why he was allowing the pipeline construction between Russia and Germany, despite it undermining NATO and American interests.</b></div><div>
</div><div>“Because it’s almost completely finished, number one. The idea that anything that — and it’s not like I can allow Germany to do something they’re not,” he said.</div><div>
</div><div>The president said he has been opposed to Nord Stream 2 from the beginning, but it was “almost completed by the time I took office.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>“To go ahead and impose sanctions now, I think, would be counterproductive now in terms of our European relations. </b>And they know how strongly I feel. And I hope we can work on how they handle it from this point on,” he told reporters as he prepared to leave the White House en route to Delaware Tuesday.</div><div>
</div><div>The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will carry gas from Russia to Europe via the EUGAL pipelines]</div><div>
</div><div>The State Department decided to waive sanctions last week in the interest of “rebuilding relationships with our allies and partners in Europe,” despite uncovering that the Switzerland-based company Nord Stream 2 AG and its CEO, Matthis Warnig, a Putin ally and former officer in East Germany’s Stasi, or security police, engaged in sanctionable activity.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">“Today’s actions demonstrate the Administration’s commitment to energy security in Europe, consistent with the President’s pledge to rebuild relationships with our allies and partners in Europe. We will continue to oppose the completion of this project, which would weaken European energy security and that of Ukraine and Eastern flank NATO and EU countries,”<b> Secretary of State Antony Blinken </b>said in a statement released last Wednesday.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">“Our opposition to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is unwavering. Though we may not always agree, our alliances remain strong, and our position is in line with our commitment to strengthen our Transatlantic relationships as a matter of national security,” the statement continued.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The natural gas pipeline is being built under the Baltic Sea by Russian energy company<b> Gazprom,</b> allowing Russia to bypass running the lines through Ukraine.</div><div>
</div><div>Opponents of the pipeline argue that it will give Putin too much influence in Germany and throughout Europe because the Kremlin will control such a substantial energy supply.</div><div>
</div><div>Former President Donald Trump railed against the deal and even warned NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg during a meeting in July 2018 that it would allow Germany to be “totally controlled” by Moscow.</div><div>
</div><div>Pipes for the construction of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany are stored at the port of Mukran on the island of Rügen.</div><div>Pipes for the construction of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany are stored at the port of Mukran on the island of Rügen.</div><div>dpa/picture alliance via Getty I</div><div>“I think it’s very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia, where you’re supposed to be guarding against Russia​,​ and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia,” Trump ​told Stoltenberg. “So we’re protecting Germany, we’re protecting France, we’re protecting all of these countries. And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they’re paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia. And I think that’s very inappropriate.”</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">nyt</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and global executives during the Russian Energy Week conference on Wednesday.</div><div>
</div><div>Andrew E. Kramer</div><div>By Andrew E. Kramer</div><div><b>Oct. 13, 2021</b></div><div>MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin drew a connection on Wednesday between resolving Europe’s natural gas crisis and gaining regulatory approval for the Russian-backed, politically fraught Nord Stream 2 pipeline.</div><div>
</div><div>Natural gas prices have soared in recent months, and with them Europeans’ heating and electricity bills. That has only increased Russia’s sway over the continent’s energy policies as its largest supplier of natural gas exports.</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Putin’s comments, at an energy conference in Moscow, were the most direct yet linking high prices to approval for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which connects Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea and is<b> staunchly opposed by many Eastern European nations. Gas has not begun flowing through it, pending regulatory approval.</b></div><div>
</div><div><b>“The German regulator should make this decision.</b> They have not yet decided,” Mr. Putin told the gathering. “Of course, if we could expand supplies along this route, then, 100 percent, I can say with absolute certainty, the tension on the European energy market would significantly decline, and that would influence prices, of course. This is an obvious thing.”</div><div>
</div><div>The remarks seemed to underscore suspicions in Europe, where some critics believe Russia is holding back extra natural gas from the market to pressure approval of the new 750-mile pipeline.</div><div>
</div><div>Nord Stream 2 is the latest of several undersea pipes laid by Russia in a decade-long strategy to replace pipelines running through former Soviet and Eastern Bloc nations by going around them, through the Black and Baltic Seas.</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Putin has said the new pipelines are needed to replace aging infrastructure and guarantee uninterrupted service to Europe. But they also deprive countries of some transit fees, create separate gas supply systems for Western and Eastern Europe and expose former Soviet republics like Ukraine to targeted energy cutoffs, a powerful political weapon.</div><div>
</div><div>The Trump administration targeted sanctions against German companies that helped build the pipeline for Gazprom, the Russian energy monopoly, but in August, President Biden dropped the U.S. threat to block it in order to smooth relations with Germany.</div><div>
</div><div>The pipeline has been contentious in U.S. politics, too. Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, has blocked confirmation of dozens of Mr. Biden’s diplomatic appointments, including more than 50 would-be ambassadors, to insist that the president do more to halt European approval for Nord Stream 2.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Runaway gas prices in Europe this fall have played into Mr. Putin’s hands</b>. Russia, the world’s largest natural gas exporter, provides about 40 percent of the gas imported to Europe, which has increasingly turned to natural gas to generate power as coal-burning plants have been shut down. As European consumers pay ever more for electricity, their patience with the intricacies of Eastern European security politics may wane.</div><div>
</div><div>At the conference, called Russian Energy Week, Mr. Putin noted that utility bills — and frustration — were rising in Europe. Natural gas is crucial for generating electric power, and he said electricity costs about 10 times more in European Union countries than in Russia.</div><div>
</div><div>Energy analysts and company executives say a variety of factors have driven up costs, including the weather, the abrupt acceleration of national economies after pandemic restrictions, and high prices in China that prompted U.S. liquefied natural gas producers to send tankers to Asia rather than Europe.</div><div>
</div><div>Responding to criticism that Russia is trying to manipulate the natural gas markets to win approval for Nord Stream 2, Mr. Putin denied any Russian role in driving up prices. He blamed European Union policies encouraging alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar farms. Mr. Putin also pointed out that American liquefied natural gas exporters had increased shipments to China rather than bolster supplies in Europe.</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Putin said Russia had fulfilled all its contracts to send gas to Europe and had supplied more natural gas this year than last year. Russia, he said, is ready to send more if companies negotiate new deals with Gazprom.</div><div>
</div><div>“We are increasing” gas supplies to Europe, he said. “And if you ask us to increase more, we will. We will increase as much as our partners ask.”</div><div>
</div><div>Russia has increased gas supplies through the Ukrainian pipeline system, he said, but cannot send more because the pipes are in poor condition. Ukrainian officials have disputed this assertion.</div><div>
</div><div>Germany’s regulator has until early January to assess whether Nord Stream 2 meets European Union regulations that prohibit producers of natural gas from owning pipelines that transport it to customers, an issue relevant to<b> Gazprom’s degree of control</b> over the European energy market.</div><div>
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A massive pipeline between&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Russia</span>&nbsp;and Germany called&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Nord</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Stream</span>&nbsp;2 is ready to start pumping gas. 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