The Nordstream II

Roberto da Silva Rocha, university professor and political scientist

Nordstream II

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A total of 158 billion cubic meters of gas arrive to Europe from the Slavic countries and the Caucasus.  To add in the future Nordstream II will add another 55 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe and its surroundings. 

At present no other source could replace this gas supply in the next 20 years, since new pipelines from other directions could not be built in less than 16 years, and would have to pass through Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine.

The sea route is mathematically impossible, because each gas ship carries up to 100,000 cubic meters, doing the math would require 4,000 new gas ships to make 2,000 trips a year and that would simply be impossible to maintain gas ports with logistics for 16 million trips a year to load and unload the gas and store the liquefied gas and pump the gas or re-ship and reliquefy the gas to go through the pipelines in Europe or on trucks or gas wagons, that would be a disaster in twenty winters the population would freeze to death, with no power, no heat, no industries and businesses, and no fertilizers made from gas.

But the US doesn't care about that, they just want to sell US produced shale gas.

For the US nothing can allow Nordstream II to work: 

if Russia invades or attacks Ukraine: no Nordstream II.

If Russia does not attack Ukraine: no Nordstream II.

If Russia would give back Crimea: no Nordstream II functioning.

If Dombass integrates into Ukrainian territory: no matter functioning Nordstream II.

Nordstream II functioning is not part of the U.S. equation because the sanctions against Nordstream II started before Maidam, or before the secession of Crimea, Dombass, Donetsk, Lugansk and all that strife since Poroschenko left the government of Ukraine.

The lion wants the $210 billion a year of gas sold by Russia through its gas networks from the Russian Caucasus and Arzebaijan.

Unfortunately the US is leading the world into the third world war and only the European union can prevent the US from trying to isolate Russia as it does with Cuba and North Korea, because treating Russia with economic sanctions and financial isolation is like squeezing a North Korea with 14,000 atomic warheads, 10,000 armored attack tanks, 67 atomic submarines, 7000 combat aircraft and 300 warships. A dog-eat-dog world animal catastrophe with no mercy for humanity.

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