Peter Hanseler: Europe is Teetering on the Brink

  

Europe is Teetering on the Brink

 

The NATO summit sent a message that no one wants to hear. Europe is openly declaring war on Russia—and it’s doing so with President Trump’s full support.

Peter Hanseler

Mon 13 Jul 2026 11 min read 15

Two Fires That Could Escalate Into a Storm

 

 

   

An Interview With General Otto Ernst Remer

Conducted by Stephanie Schoeman

Translated by Mark Weber  

   

  18 August 1912 — 4 October 1997 

Eric Zuesse -- The Dangerous Ignorance of Germany’s New Foreign Minister

 

The Dangerous Ignorance of Germany’s New Foreign Minister

 

Eric Zuesse, December 17, 2021

 

Germany’s new Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock came into office on December 8th without her knowing that America’s stationing missiles in Ukraine on Russia’s border, and only a 7-minute flying distance away from Moscow, would be even more unacceptable to Moscow than, in 1962, would have been, to Washington, the Soviet Union’s stationing missiles in Cuba, fifteen minutes of flying-time away from Washington, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. She's evidently so much of a neoconservative (supporter of U.S. imperialism) that Baerbock had been ignoring this crucial and simple fact of international relations throughout her entire prior 17-year career in politics, before becoming appointed as Germany’s Foreign Minister.

 

She had ignored it so much so that Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, during his introductory phone-conversation with her on December 14th, found in the course of the conversation with her, that he had to explain it to her. This is rather shocking.

ERIC ZUESSE -- Politcal Corruption in U.S., Germany, and Russia

Political Corruption in U.S., Germany, and Russia

 

Eric Zuesse, December 13, 2021

 

The U.S. Government shaped the Governments of Germany and of Russia; and, therefore, the campaign-finance laws in these three countries will be compared here.

 

The U.S. Government shaped the German Government not only because the U.S. Government (with the cooperation of its WW II allies) shaped post-War West Germany, but because that West German Government then ruled also the former East Germany after 3 October 1990; so, the present German Government is an extension from what U.S. President Truman’s Administration had produced as being West Germany’s Government.

 

EN -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- The Jewish Betrayal of Germany and the Cause of World War II -- October 14, 2020

 

 

 

The Jewish Betrayal of Germany and the Cause of World War II

 By LARRY ROMANOFF – October 14, 2020

 

The true origins of the two World Wars form a crucial part of our modern history, the truths of which have been deleted from all our history books and replaced with mythology blaming Germany. This article is a minor attempt to set straight part of the record. From the Introduction to the article 'The Anger Campaign Against China' (which should be read as a companion piece to this article):

 

"It shouldn’t be a secret, though it still seems to be, that neither of the two World Wars were started (or desired) by Germany, but were the creation of a group of European Zionist Jews with the stated intent of the total destruction of Germany. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) The main purpose of this essay is to demonstrate not only that ‘history repeats itself’ but that the history being repeated today is a mass grooming of the Western world’s people (but most especially Americans) in preparation for World War III – which I believe is now imminent."

 

 For one, it involves the treachery of the Zionist Jews in betraying Germany - which had been a rather happy home for the Jews - and scheming to obtain Palestine in trade for that betrayal. For another, few people seem aware that the Jews openly declared a worldwide war on Germany, well before the Second World War, the economic consequences of which were quite severe. The stated intention, by organising a worldwide boycott of all German goods, was to destroy Germany's economy and starve to death one-third of Germany's population - as punishment for refusing to bow to a Jewish ultimatum to fire Hitler (Germany's Chancellor) and to reinstate all Jews to their former government positions. Jews cannot escape the accusation that they themselves were responsible for the resentment within Germany against their own people. 

 

March 1938 Headline: UK Newspaper Boss Writes that Jewish Influence may Drive Britain into War with Germany

Coronavirus: Xi Jinping calls leaders of France, Spain, Germany and Serbia with offers of support

Members of a Chinese aid team arrive at Fiumicino Airport in Rome last week. Photo: Xinhua

China / Diplomacy

Coronavirus: Xi Jinping calls leaders of France, Spain, Germany and Serbia with offers of support

• Chinese president tells heads of state that Beijing is ready to do all it can to help Europe fight Covid-19, as death toll on the continent passes 5,000
• ‘Public health crises are the common challenges facing humankind, and unity and cooperation are its most powerful weapons,’ Xi tells German Chancellor Angela Merkel

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3076287/coronavirus-xi-jinping-calls-leaders-italy-spain-germany-and

China / Society

Coronavirus: ‘strange pneumonia’ seen in Lombardy in November, leading Italian doctor says

• Virus was circulating ‘before we were aware of the outbreak in China’, says Giuseppe Remuzzi, director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
• Italy has now reported more than 4,800 deaths from Covid-19, more than any other country in the world

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Wolters said that 35 of the 72,000 U.S. forces in Europe have tested positive for the illness known as COVID-19.

Pentagon monitoring 2,600 military personnel in Europe for possible coronavirus exposure

BY ELLEN MITCHELL - 03/20/20 02:33 PM EDT

The top U.S. commander in Europe said Friday that 2,600 military personnel on the continent were “of concern” for possible exposure to the coronavirus.

Gen. Tod Wolters, commander of U.S. European Command, told reporters that not all the individuals were in isolation, but the Pentagon later clarified that they are “in self-isolation as a precaution due to travel or other reasons."

“These individuals are not necessarily sick, but may have been exposed and are doing their due diligence following health preventative measures,” according to the statement.

The 2,600 individuals include “those who may have been tested, but not positive.”

The statement did not go into detail about how the individuals were being isolated.

The Pentagon did immediately respond to a request for comment.

Wolters said that 35 of the 72,000 U.S. forces in Europe have tested positive for the illness known as COVID-19.

Massive Army exercise in Europe iscurtailed amid coronavirus angst

Massive Army exercise in Europe is curtailed amid coronavirus angst 

In a March 5, 2020 photo, Consul General Meghan Gregonis, U.S. Consulate Munich welcomes Col. Patrick Disney, 1st Cavalry Division as he arrives at the Nuremberg Airport. Disney and his fellow Soldiers were the first to arrive to Germany for exercise Defender-Europe 20.

ELLEN C. BRABO/U.S. ARMY

By JOHN VANDIVER | STARS AND STRIPES

Published: March 11, 2020

STUTTGART, Germany — The largest U.S. military exercise in Europe in a generation will be scaled back because of concerns about the coronavirus, marking a possible setback for the Army after the service spent years building up for the drill known as Defender-Europe 20.

U.S. European Command said Wednesday that the training, which initially called for sending 20,000 U.S.-based soldiers across the Atlantic Ocean, would be downsized.

“After careful review of the ongoing Defender-Europe 20 exercise activities and in light of the current coronavirus outbreak, we will modify the exercise by reducing the number of U.S. participants,” EUCOM said in a statement

The training will be adjusted, but the military will still work with allies to meet “our highest priority training objectives,” EUCOM said.

In all, more than 35,000 troops were originally slated to take part in Defender Europe, which is already underway and is slated to run until the end of June. Most of the major exercises, including paratroopers dropping into the Republic of Georgia and ground forces rehearsing the defense of territory in the vicinity of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, were to take place in April and May.

USA is pulling nukes out of Turkey

 USA is pulling nukes out of Turkey 

by Belit Onay

February 24, 2020

As reported earlier, Air Mobility Command’s C-17A Globemaster III arrived at Incerlik AB, Turkey from Sicily, Italy on February, 20 as part of US-led exercise Defender Europe 2020, Air Mobility Command officials said.

Five more C-17A Globemasters III arrived to Incerlik AB from Ramstein Air Base on February, 21. Our sources at Incerlik AB confirm that the presence of five additional transport aircraft is a clear evidence of getting the whole bulk of nukes (that are currently stored at Incerlik AB amid tensions in Syria) out to Germany, Poland and one of the Baltic states. Five nuclear bombs are to be transported to Poland and one of the Baltic states accordingly with the rest of the stock to be delivered to Germany.

Besides, there’s a forward-deployed nuclear weapons storage depot for Defender Europe 2020 in Powidz. 

75 years ago -- A US War Story: Dresden, Germany by Larry Romanoff

75 YEARS AGO

A US War Story

Dresden, Germany

By Larry Romanoff

Global Research, November 01, 2019

Region: Europe, Russia and FSU, USA

Theme: History

Piles of corpses in front of destroyed buildings in Dresden after air raids on February 13 and 14, 1945. 

Deutsches Bundesarchiv/Wikimedia Commons

Westerners are aware that the Americans fire-bombed the city of Dresden in Germany at the end of the Second World War, but most of the truth was suppressed as soon as it happened. Dresden was Eastern Germany’s cultural centre, a city filled with museums and historic buildings, historians unanimously agreeing that Dresden had no military value. What little industry it did have produced only cigarettes and china.

Neither Churchill nor Roosevelt were interested in ending the war or attacking military installations that still existed 100 Kms. outside of Dresden. At the time, the Russian army was advancing, and there is some truth to the story that the Americans wanted to show the Russians the awesome power of a truly advanced military force, to prevent Russia from harboring ambitions about Europe. It seems that both British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Roosevelt wanted what they called “a trump card”, a devastating “thunderclap of Anglo-American annihilation” with which to “impress” Stalin. But this could have been accomplished in many other ways and places. Dresden was not selected for this reason. There were two other prime motivations which will soon be apparent.

The fire-bombing of Dresden is one of many historical events that have been heavily sanitised by the victors, with casualty claims by so-called historians ranging as low as 25,000 or 30,000 when the likely tally was at least 30 times that number. Most cleansed versions of this holocaust tend to virtually ignore or deliberately underestimate the vast stream of refugees that had been flowing into Dresden for weeks; the most accurate estimates I have seen range upward from 500,000, this in addition to the regular population. Both Churchill and Roosevelt were fully aware of this huge and defenseless horde and, in their search for their “trump-card thunderclap”, were quoted as actively looking for “suggestions on how to blaze 600,000 refugees”. The Internet on this topic is very heavily sanitised.

An important point historians have chosen to overlook is that the Americans and British fire-bombed not only Dresden but hundreds of smaller towns surrounding Dresden, many of which were so totally destroyed they were never rebuilt. The reason was genocidal, one small part of the overall intent to totally destroy Germany. With the utter destruction of these smaller towns, the population was being driven – herded like animals – into larger cities like Dresden where they could be annihilated in one massive single strike. The initial bombings encircled areas like Dresden, driving the people out of their towns and into the larger centers where they might find food and shelter and perhaps medical care. Often, the Allies bombed surrounding roads and railroads to prevent the escape of refugees in those directions, relentlessly herding them to the slaughter-houses. The plan was to exterminate as many Germans as possible. By the date of the bombing, the city was filled with increasing hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing other areas under attack.

Another item historians refuse to face is that Dresden was specifically selected for extermination not in spite of, but because of, its cultural value, to drive a stake into the heart of German cultural heritage and leave a wound that could never heal, by the permanent destruction of irreplaceable portions of the German soul, to open a wound in the German psyche that would never heal.

In successive waves of bombing with incendiaries, the Americans turned the entire city into one massive firestorm, killing perhaps a million civilians. With the high number of refugees, the real totals will never be known, but it was one of the worst single-event massacres of all time. As author Kurt Vonnegut wrote later,

“You guys burnt the place down, turned it into a single column of flame. More people died there in the firestorm, in that one big flame, than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined”.

That evening in 1945 was “an orgy of genocide and barbarism against a defenseless German city, one of the greatest cultural centers of northern Europe”. More than 700,000 phosphorus bombs were dropped on 1.2 million people. One bomb for every 2 people. The temperature in the centre of the city reached 1800°C, melting the surfaces of the streets and instantly incinerating more than 500,000 women, children and the elderly.

The massive Allied bombers attacked Dresden repeatedly, and after completing their third wave, the US sent in P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft that strafed everything that moved. They flew along the Elbe River where the banks were loaded with still-arriving refugees, and killed almost all of them. They strafed columns of ambulances and rescue vehicles trying to evacuate survivors, they strafed hospitals and machine-gunned helpless patients. They machine-gunned all the animals in the Dresden zoo. Dresden truly was an orgy of death and destruction, but it was more. It was a celebration of evil. This was not part of a war; it was killing for the sake of killing, and for the enjoyment of it. After the war, Churchill was knighted for his success while the Americans celebrated their supremacy in civilian pacification, and yet others celebrated another chapter in the destruction of Germany.

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Larry Romanoff is a frequent contributor to Global Research.

ERIC ZUESSE -- How Obama’s Mid-East Policy Led to Nazi Rebirth in Today’s Germany

 How Obama’s Mid-East Policy Led to Nazi Rebirth in Today’s Germany 

by Eric Zuesse

January 30, 2020

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org

On January 12th, Deutsche Welle (Germany’s public broadcaster like BBC, PBS, NPR, and RT) headlined “Mayor’s resignation highlights threat to German leaders: Arnd Focke, the Social Democratic mayor of a town in Lower Saxony, was regularly threatened by nationalists. Now he has resigned. Regional officials have repeatedly faced threats across Germany.” He quit for his safety, because carrying out Germany’s compassionate policies toward the flood of mainly Middle-Eastern refugees has produced a backlash that is becoming increasingly organized and dangerous to Germany’s democracy.

U.S. President Barack Obama’s policies in support of overthrowing secular governments in the Middle East (such as in Libya and Syria), and his attempts to install there new governments — which were planned to be allied with the Sharia-law, fundamentalist-Sunni, Saud family, who own Saudi Arabia — caused the exodus, from those secularly-headed U.S.-attacked Middle-Eastern countries, of millions, some of which refugees live now in Germany and are not accepted there, for many of reasons, some valid and some invalid. The resulting influx of millions of culturally markedly different people has given rise to a rebirth of Germany’s Nazi movement.

Whereas Obama’s U.S., and especially now Trump’s U.S., has refused entry of refugees from these countries, Europe (and especially Germany) has been compassionate toward them and allowed them in, and are now experiencing the political blowback, at home, from their admission of refugees from America’s invasions to overthrow secular governments in the Middle East.

How and why did this happen? 

SUOMI -- Manlio Dinucci -- Yhdysvaltain strategia ja kaasuputkisodan kustannukset meille

 Yhdysvaltain strategia ja kaasuputkisodan kustannukset meille 

 Manlio Dinucci

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Huolimatta meneillään olevasta, mutkikkaasta presidentti Trumpin virkasyytöstä koskevasta taistelusta republikaanit ja demokraatit laskivat senaatissa aseensa äänestääkseen lähes yksimielisesti ankarien sanktioiden määräämisestä North Stream 2:n rakennukseen osallistuville yhtiöille, putken joka kaksinkertaistaisi venäläisen kaasun kuljetuksen Saksaan Itämeren yli. Pääasialliset uhrit olivat eurooppalaiset yhtiöt, jotka olivat auttaneet rahoittamaan 11 miljardin dollarin hankkeen venäläisen Gazprom-yhtiön kanssa. Siinä ovat mukana myös itävaltalainen Omy-yhtiö, englantilais-hollantilainen Royal Dutch Shell, ranskalainen Engie, saksalaiset Uniper ja Wintershall, italialainen Saipem ja sveitsiläinen Allseas.

Yhdysvallat varoittaa North Streamin kaksinkertaistamisen lisäävän Euroopan riippuvuutta Venäjän kaasusta. Se on ennen kaikkea huolissaan siitä, että Itämeren putki kulkee Venäjän, Suomen, Ruotsin ja Saksan merialueiden kautta, välttäen siten Visegrad-ryhmän maat (Tsekki, Slovakia, Puola ja Unkari), Baltian maat ja Ukrainan. Toisin sanoen Euroopan maat, joilla on läheisimmät suhteet Washingtoniin Naton kautta (ja näihin meidän on pakko lisätä Italia).

Tästä om todisteena se, että North Stream 2 -sanktiot sisältyvät National Defense Authorization Act  -säädökseen, joka tilikautena 2020 myöntää Pentagonille jättimäiset 738 miljardia dollaria uusiin sotiin ja aseisiin (myös avaruusaseisiin), ja kun tähän lisätään muut hallinnolliset menot, ne nostavat Yhdysvaltain armeijan menot noin 1000 miljardiin dollariin. North Stream 2:een kohdistetut taloudelliset sanktiot ovat osa poliittis-sotilaallista Venäjän vastaisuuden lisääntymistä.

Tätä vahvistaa myös se, että Yhdysvaltain kongressi ei ole asettanut sanktioita ainoastaan North Stream 2:lle vaan myös Turk-Streamille, joka valmistuessaan tuo Venäjältä kaasua Mustanmeren yli Itä-Traakiaan, pieneen eurooppalaiseen osaan Turkkia. Sieltä Venäjän kaasua toimitettaisiin Bulgariaan, Serbiaan ja muihin Euroopan maihin. Tämä on Venäjän vastaisku Yhdysvaltain menettelylle, joka onnistui pysäyttämään South Stream -putken vuonna 2014. South Streamin oli tarkoitus yhdistää Venäjä Italiaan Mustanmeren kautta ja maateitse Tarvisioon (Udineen). Silloin Italiasta olisi tullut EU:ssa vaihtoehtoinen kaasuntoimituspaikka, mistä koituisi merkittäviä taloudellisia etuja. Obaman hallinto onnistui romuttamaan projektin yhteistoiminnassa Euroopan Unionin kanssa.

Saipem-yhtiö (Italian Eni Group), johon taas kerran vaikuttivat Yhdysvaltain sanktiot North Stream 2:a vastaan, kärsi vakavasti South Streamin pysäyttämisestä – 2014 se menetti 2,4 miljardin euron arvoiset sopimukset, joihin olisi lisätty muita sopimuksia mikäli projekti olisi jatkunut. Mutta tuolloin kukaan Italiassa tai EU:ssa ei protestoinut Yhdysvaltain järjestämää projektin hautaamista vastaan. Nyt ovat kyseessä Saksan intressit, ja Saksassa ja EU:ssa kuullaan kriittisiä ääniä Yhdysvaltain North Stream 2 -sanktioista.

Mitään ei mainita siitä tosiasiasta, että Euroopan Unioni on tehnyt sopimuksen tuoda Yhdysvalloista  nesteytettyä maakaasua (LNG), jota eristetään bitumisesta liuskeesta tuhoavalla tekniikalla hyötysuunnassa (murtamalla). Vahingoittakseen Venäjää Yhdysvallat pyrkii vähentämään sen kaasunvientiä EU:hun, pakottaen eurooppalaiset kuluttajat maksamaan laskun. Sen jälkeen kun presidentti Donald Trump ja Euroopan komission puheenjohtaja Jean-Claude Juncker heinäkuussa 2018 allekirjoittivat yhteisen lausunnon, the Joint Statement of 25 July: European Union imports of U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), EU on kaksinkertaistanut LGN-tuonnin Yhdysvalloista, aloittaen yhteisistä 656 miljoonan euron 

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Manlio Dinucci

Geographer and geopolitical scientist. His latest books are Laboratorio di geografia, Zanichelli 2014 ; Diario di viaggio, Zanichelli 2017 ; L’arte della guerra / Annali della strategia Usa/Nato 1990-2016, Zambon 2016, Guerra Nucleare. Il Giorno Prima 2017; Diario di guerra Asterios Editores 2018, Premio internazionale per l'analisi geostrategica assegnato il 7 giugno 2019 dal Club dei giornalisti del Messico, A.C.

NORSK -- Manlio Dinucci -- USAs strategi og hva krigen om gassrørledningen koster oss

USAs strategi og hva krigen om gassrørledningen koster oss

av Manlio Dinucci

Etter å ha forbudt det kinesiske selskapet Huawei å konkurrere om 5G-nettverk rundt omkring, så forbyr nå De Forente Stater europeerne å øke sin forsyning av russisk gass. Mens den første beslutningen var tatt sammen med NATO, er den andre beslutningen ikke et resultat av russerfobi, men et resultat av «Wolfowitz-doktrinen» fra 1992 - som skal hindre EU i å bli en konkurrent til «The American Empire».I begge tilfeller er hensikten å behandle EU som et barn for å gjøre dem mer avhengige.

VOLTAIRE NETWORK | ROMA (ITALIA) | 31 DÉCEMBRE 2019

 

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Den tyske kansleren Angela Merkel og hennes finansminister, Olaf Scholz, fordømmer øyeblikkelig USAs innblanding.

Selv om de nå ser ut til å være fastlåst i kampen om å få stilt Trump for riksrett har republikanerne og demokratene i senatet enstemmig gått inn for tunge sanksjoner mot selskaper som deltar i konstruksjonen av Nord Stream 2 gassrørledningen. Det er denne som skal doble gassleveransene fra Russland til Tyskland gjennom Østersjøen.

De som kommer til å bli rammet hardest er europeiske selskaper som har hjulpet til med å finansiere dette 11 milliarder store prosjektet sammen med det russiske selskapet Gazprom. Prosjektet er nå 80 % fullført.

Det østerrikske selskapet Omy, britisk/nederlandske Royal Dutch Shell, det franske Engie, de tyske selskapene Uniper og Wintershall, det italienske Saipem og det sveitsiske Allseas er alle med på å legge ut denne rørledningen.

NL -- Manlio Dinucci -- Amerikaanse strategie en wat de gaspijplijn oorlog ons kost

Amerikaanse strategie

 en wat de gaspijplijn oorlog ons kost

door Manlio Dinucci

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 PORTUGUÊS ROMÎNA  TÜRKÇE

Hoewel ze vastzaten in een ingewikkelde strijd over de beschuldiging van president Trump, hebben de Republikeinen en Democraten in de Senaat de wapens neergelegd om, in quasi-unanimiteit, te stemmen voor het opleggen van zware sancties aan de bedrijven die deelnemen aan de bouw van North Stream 2, de verdubbeling van de gaspijpleiding die Russisch gas levert aan Duitsland over de Oostzee. De belangrijkste slachtoffers waren de Europese bedrijven die met het Russische bedrijf Gazprom hebben bijgedragen aan de financiering van het project van 11 miljard dollar. Het project is nu voor 80 % voltooid. Ook het Oostenrijkse bedrijf Omy, de Brits/Nederlandse Royal Dutch Shell, Frans Engie, de Duitse bedrijven Uniper en Wintershall, het Italiaanse Saipem en Swiss Allseas nemen deel aan de aanleg van de pijpleiding.

De verdubbeling van North Stream vergroot de afhankelijkheid van Europa van Russisch gas, waarschuwen de Verenigde Staten. Zij maken zich vooral zorgen over het feit dat de gaspijpleiding - door de Oostzee over te steken in wateren van Rusland, Finland, Zweden en Duitsland - zo de Visegradlanden (Tsjechië, Slowakije, Polen en Hongarije), de Baltische staten en de Oekraïne vermijdt. Met andere woorden, de Europese landen die via de NAVO de nauwste banden hebben met Washington (waaraan we Italië moeten toevoegen).

Het doel voor de VS is niet zozeer economisch, maar strategisch. Dit wordt bevestigd door het feit dat de sancties op North Stream 2 zijn opgenomen in de National Defense Authorization Act, de wet die het Pentagon voor het fiscale jaar 2020 de kolossale som van 738 miljard dollar geeft voor nieuwe oorlogen en nieuwe wapens (inclusief ruimtewapens), waaraan nog andere posten moeten worden toegevoegd die de militaire uitgaven van de VS op ongeveer 1.000 miljard dollar brengen. De economische sancties op North Stream 2 maken deel uit van een politiek-militaire escalatie tegen Rusland.

Een bijbedoeling is dat het Amerikaanse Congres niet alleen sancties heeft ingesteld tegen North Stream 2, maar ook tegen de Turk-Stream, die in de laatste fase van de realisatie Russisch gas over de Zwarte Zee naar Oost-Tracië, het kleine Europese gebied van Turkije, zal brengen. Van daaruit zou via een andere pijpleiding Russisch gas moeten worden geleverd aan Bulgarije, Servië en andere Europese landen. Dit is de Russische riposte naar de Amerikaanse actie die de South Stream-pijpleiding in 2014 heeft weten te blokkeren. South Stream was bedoeld om Rusland met Italië te verbinden via de Zwarte Zee en over land naar Tarvisio (Udine). Italië zou dus een schakelplatform voor gas in de EU zijn geworden, met opmerkelijke economische voordelen. De regering-Obama heeft het project met medewerking van de Europese Unie kunnen omzeilen.

Het bedrijf Saipem (Italiaanse Eni Group), opnieuw getroffen door de Amerikaanse sancties tegen North Stream 2, werd zwaar getroffen door de blokkade van Zuid Stream - in 2014 verloor het bedrijf contracten ter waarde van 2,4 miljard euro, waaraan nog andere contracten zouden zijn toegevoegd als het project was voortgezet. Maar op dat moment protesteerde niemand in Italië of in de EU tegen het begraven van het project dat door de VS werd georganiseerd. Nu zijn er Duitse belangen in het spel, en in Duitsland en in de EU wordt er kritiek geuit op de sancties van de VS tegen North Stream 2.

Er wordt niets gezegd over het feit dat de Europese Unie heeft ingestemd met de invoer van vloeibaar aardgas (LNG) uit de VS, een extract van bitumineuze leisteen door de destructieve techniek van hydraulische breuk (fracking). Om Rusland te schaden, probeert Washington zijn gasexport naar de EU te verminderen, waardoor de Europese consumenten de rekening moeten betalen. Sinds president Donald Trump en de voorzitter van de Europese Commissie, Jean-Claude Juncker, in juli 2018 in Washington de gezamenlijke verklaring van 25 juli hebben ondertekend: De EU heeft de invoer van Amerikaans vloeibaar aardgas (LNG) uit de VS verdubbeld en de infrastructuur medegefinancierd via een eerste uitgave van 656 miljoen euro. Dit heeft de Europese bedrijven echter niet gered van de Amerikaanse sancties.

il manifesto, 23 December 2019

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Geographer and geopolitical scientist. His latest books are Laboratorio di geografia, Zanichelli 2014 ; Diario di viaggio, Zanichelli 2017 ; L’arte della guerra / Annali della strategia Usa/Nato 1990-2016, Zambon 2016, Guerra Nucleare. Il Giorno Prima 2017; Diario di guerra Asterios Editores 2018, Premio internazionale per l'analisi geostrategica assegnato il 7 giugno 2019 dal Club dei giornalisti del Messico, A.C.