Oil and the US-Ukraine-Russia War

Background: As Washington plans for its next industrial sabotage against Russia, the planners in DC apparently think that Russia will continue to turn the other cheek. The US warmonger quoted in the RT article below is the former US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, who was recorded in the notorious “F— the EU” phone call with Victoria Nuland while planning the 2014 US coup to replace the pro-Russia leader of Ukraine.

US Pledges to Prevent Russia from
Developing New Energy Projects
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(April 9, 2024) — Washington wants to ensure that Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2 project is “dead in the water,” the State Department has said

We now have direct evidence of the Outlaw US Empire’s aim to destroy Russian LNG gas works in the Arctic as RT News reports, “US pledges to prevent Russia from developing new energy projects: Washington wants to ensure that Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2 project is “dead in the water,” the State Department has said.”

The US 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.

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.

“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 in order 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.

I wrote an article last September on that project, “Novatek’s LNG-2 Constuction”, that consisted of a series of videos and text. I opined recently that those works and others are vulnerable to NATO marine drones, and with the destruction of Nord Stream there’s little to stop the Outlaw US Empire from duplicating its effort as announced by Pyatt.

Now that direct links to the Outlaw US Empire’s terrorist financing are being discovered, Russia must take the threat to its vital and very expensive and intricate LNG works extremely seriously as I’m certain any NATO nation would enjoy the task of targeting them, particularly newbies Finland and Sweden to prove their worth.

Cutting Europe off from cheap Russian pipeline gas has been a key component of 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 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 wellbeing of Europeans has been sacrificed by Washington in the process, Russian officials have argued.

The loss of the European market has prompted Moscow to refocus on pipelines linking major gas fields with customers in Asia, primarily China.

READ MORE: EU boosts gas purchases from Russia – Reuters