{"id":400259,"date":"2019-03-19T06:49:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T05:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/time-runs-out-on-us-opposition-to-nordstream-2\/"},"modified":"2019-03-19T06:49:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T05:49:45","slug":"time-runs-out-on-us-opposition-to-nordstream-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/time-runs-out-on-us-opposition-to-nordstream-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Runs Out on US Opposition to Nordstream 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nordstream 2 pipeline represents the last stand of U.S. influence over the internal affairs of Europe.<\/p>\n

Once finished it will stand as a testament to the fundamental split between the European Union and the United States.<\/p>\n

Europe will this as its first successful defense of\u00a0its newly-declared independence.<\/a>\u00a0And the U.S. will have to come to terms with no longer having control overseas.<\/p>\n

This is a theme repeating itself all around the world right now.<\/p>\n

Your view of Nordstream 2 depends on who you are.<\/p>\n

If you are the U.S. it is a massive rebuke of the post-WWII institutional order mostly paid for by the U.S. to rebuild Europe and protecting it from the scourge of the U.S.S.R.<\/p>\n

From Europe\u2019s perspective it\u2019s, \u201cJob well done and all that but Russia isn\u2019t a threat anymore and it is time for us to come out from underneath the U.S.\u2019s shadow.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

And if you are Russia Nordtream 2 is the wedge driving these two adversaries apart while improving national security on your western border.
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Europe has imperial ambitions of its own and Nordstream 2 is a very important part of that. Those ambitions, however, are not in line with those in the U.S., particularly under the \u201cleadership\u201d of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump has this strange idea that the U.S. has gotten nothing in return for our running the world these past seventy-odd years. Our massive trade deficit is wealth stolen by our trade partners in Trump\u2019s simplistic mind.<\/p>\n

He refuses to see the wealth we\u2019ve \u2018lost\u2019 as squandered by decades of corruption, sloth, regulatory over-reach, etc.<\/p>\n

And so, to Trump, Nordstream 2 is an abomination because he\u2019s funding NATO to protect Europe…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Nordstream 2 pipeline represents the last stand of U.S. influence over the internal affairs of Europe. Once finished it will stand as a testament to the fundamental split between the European Union and the United States. Europe will this as its first successful defense of\u00a0its newly-declared independence.\u00a0And the U.S. will have to come to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}