{"id":307114,"date":"2021-07-24T02:05:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bidens-kremlin-kowtow-on-nord-stream-is-about-boosting-lefts-european-project\/"},"modified":"2021-07-24T02:05:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T23:05:09","slug":"bidens-kremlin-kowtow-on-nord-stream-is-about-boosting-lefts-european-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-kremlin-kowtow-on-nord-stream-is-about-boosting-lefts-european-project\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden’s Kremlin kowtow on Nord Stream is about boosting left’s European project"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Biden’s Kremlin kowtow on Nord Stream is about boosting left’s European project<\/strong>”
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For years, Democrats and their cable-news<\/a> echo chamber spread ludicrous rumors about former President Donald Trump being an agent of Vladimir Putin\u2019s Kremlin. The irony is that Trump, when it came to substantive policy, took a very hawkish line against Moscow \u2014 moves his Democratic successor is now busy undoing.<\/p>\n

He shored up missile defense in Central and Eastern Europe; stood strongly with America\u2019s allies in the region, and unilaterally withdrew the US from bilateral and multilateral accords, such as the Intermedia<\/a>te-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, that buttressed Russia, which refused to comply with their terms.<\/p>\n

Most notably, Trump adamantly tried to block construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a nearly completed, but stalled, 764-mile natural-gas pipeline connecting Russia with Germany via the Baltic Sea. Nord Stream 2 is an indispensable tool for a Russian Federation seeking to extend its energy domination of the Continent and circumvent Ukraine as an energy transit station.<\/p>\n

But Biden\u2019s Washington won\u2019t oppose the pipeline.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, roughly a week after German Chancellor Angela Merkel left DC, the United States and Germany issued a joint statement signing off on the completion of Nord Stream 2.<\/p>\n

Team Biden\u2019s app<\/a>roval marks the culmination of a stunning about-face. Biden himself has often called Putin a \u201cKGB thug.\u201d White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki asserted just last month that the administration \u201ccontinues to believe that Nord Stream 2 is a bad deal for Europe.\u201d State Department Spokesman Ned Price on Tuesday \u2014 literally one day before the Biden-Merkel joint statement \u2014 blasted the pipeline as a \u201cKremlin geopolitical project that is intended to \u00adexpand Russia\u2019s influence over \u00adEurope\u2019s energy resources and to circumvent Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Merkel is undoubtedly happy with this outcome, and there is no one happier than Putin himself. But America\u2019s Central and Eastern European allies are undoubtedly livid at what they rightly view as a destructive and self-defeating kowtow to Moscow and Berlin.<\/p>\n

In May, I interviewed Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw for Newsweek, and there was perhaps no issue on which he was more passionate than he was on the correctness of Trump\u2019s unwavering anti-Nord Stream 2 stance and the wrongness of Biden\u2019s gratuitous flip-flop.<\/p>\n

Even more important, the deal hurts US natural-gas exporters, \u00adeffectively depriving them of access to the key European market. Astoundingly, Biden\u2019s greenlighting of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline comes on the heels of his lamentable decision to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline here at home.<\/p>\n

What could possibly explain such bizarre and counterproductive \u00adbehavior? On the rhetorical front, Biden \u2014 now tottering in his political dotage \u2014 is not exactly known as a paragon of lucidity. And if a \u00adrecent Politico report on Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 hellish office is any indication, the Biden administration more general<\/a>ly is a disjointed and fractious mess. In terms of selling out domestic natural-gas producers and exporters \u2014 well, Biden and his political party have never much cared for them anyway.<\/p>\n

But the clearest reason for Biden\u2019s move is his desire to \u00adappease Merkel and give Berlin a major and visible geopolitical win.<\/p>\n

Germany is the most powerful \u00adEuropean Union member and exercises outsize influence over the Continent\u2019s economic and political affairs. The EU may be headquartered in Brussels, but Berlin is the crown jewel of the European integration project \u2014 and the indispensable bulwark, in the aftermath of the UK\u2019s successful Brexit, against the centrifugal threat of greater Euroskepticism.<\/p>\n

If one wishes \u2014 as does the modern globalist left, and as does the modern Democratic Party that is very much a part of that globalist left \u2014 to fortify the EU and preserve its status as an iconic transnational institution, then signing off on Nord Stream 2 makes a great deal of sense. Liberal regimes such as Germany and Belgium win, whereas nationalist regimes such as Poland and Hungary lose.<\/p>\n

The United States, of course, also loses. As does Democrats\u2019 feigned and disingenuous moral high ground as a corrective counterweight to Trump\u2019s purported pro-Russia dovishness.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @Josh_Hammer<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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