“Support by United States rulers is rather like the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev. 

To the disadvantage of Europe – whose political elite is in the pocket of Washington – the Washington Deep State is aiming to halt the development of the Russian energy sector, including a major new LNG project in the Arctic, senior State Department official Geoffrey Pyatt has said. 

If successful, Western Europe – the 27 European Unions will face an economic catastrophe as bad if not worse than Washington’s sabotage of Nord Stream II.

Speaking at a Financial Times summit on Monday, Pyatt stated that the US is specifically targeting the Arctic LNG 2 project in Russia’s northern Yamal Region, which is being developed by private energy giant Novatek with its eye on the European market. 

‘Our goal is to ensure that Arctic LNG 2 is dead in the water,’ Pyatt, who serves as assistant secretary of state for energy resources, was quoted as saying by the British newspaper. 

‘We’re very focused on ensuring that Russia is not able to develop new projects to redirect the gas that it had previously sent into Europe.’ 

The US has imposed several rounds of economic restrictions on Arctic LNG 2, the most recent of which was announced in November 2023. 

Cutting Europe off from cheap Russian pipeline gas has been a key component of US-led Western retaliation since Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine in 2022. While American LNG producers have seized a large share of the market, Russian gas continues to flow to some EU member states. 

According to a Reuters estimate, the EU boosted purchases of Russian LNG in 2023 to compensate for the loss of Nord Stream II pipeline gas. LNG currently holds a 15% share of the market, up from roughly 8% before 2022. The share of the Russian pipeline gas was previously 37%. 

Moscow considers the Ukraine conflict to be part of a US-led proxy war against Russia, one of the goals of which is to quash economic competition. The well-being of Europeans has been sacrificed by Washington in the process, Russian officials have confirmed. 

The loss of the European market has prompted Moscow to refocus on pipelines linking major gas fields with customers in Asia, primarily China.  You can share this story on social media:

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