The Real Reason Putin’s Offer Was Too Good for Trump To Refuse

The Real Reason Putin’s Offer Was Too Good for Trump To Refuse

The Western news media on the US/Russia relations is almost always so far behind the curve, that it’s a miracle they’re still in the game. Anyone who follows the issue closely knows that the deal between the US and Russia to end the war in Ukraine has already been struck, the rest is rhetoric.  Putin knows that the mere mention of money makes Trump salivate, as shown by Netanyahu’s offer to the US of Gaza as a new gilded seaside resort. Not surp…

It seemed like a closed matter, something that was best forgotten, because it ended badly. An underwater explosion, in September 2022, burst three of the four Nord Stream pipelines connecting the Russian coast with the German one by the Baltic Sea. The project symbolized, like no other, Germany's unhealthy dependence on Russia by Vladimir Putin, and Western complacency in the years leading up to the war in Ukraine.

Potential Trump-Putin deal on Nord Stream 2 raises concerns in Berlin

Reports are surfacing of behind-the-scenes negotiations between the Americans and Russians discussing the potential reactivation of the Nord …

Trump-Putin detente could revive Nord Stream 2

Reading Time: 4 minutes The US and Russia are discussing the potential reopening of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, raising significant concerns across Europe, according to media reports. The natural gas pipeline, which runs beneath the Baltic Sea, aimed to double Russian gas exports to Germany. However, it has remained inactive since its completion in 2021 due to geopolitical tensions and sanctions after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine the followi…

Is a Russia-US Nord Stream revival really possible?

While still hypothetical, a Moscow-Washington deal to restore the gas pipeline would reshape energy diplomacy and bring new challengesBy Igbal Guliyev, deputy director of the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO UniversityFILE PHOTO: Workers cut through a section of pipe at the construction site of the facility that will be on the receiving end of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline. ©  Sean Gallup / Getty ImagesWit…