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The Trump administration is on a diplomatic offensive against Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, lobbying across Europe to kill off the project while also boosting its own gas sales to Europe.
The geopolitical rationale behind the U.S. position is to keep Russia from dominating European gas markets. There is also a growing commercial imperative as the U.S. starts to sell liquified natural gas to the EU and Russia’s Gazprom becomes a competitor.
Unlike Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, breaking with Obama administration support, the new administration is sticking with its Democratic predecessor’s position on the pipeline — even if the commercial reasons are more obvious.
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