Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: Perche'  L'Italia ha perso e la Germania ha vinto

Il sud stream e' diventato nord stream due
 
German Chancellor Merkel – writes Alberto Negri (il manifesto, July 23) 
– has resisted the pressure of three U.S. administrations – Obama, 
Trump and Biden – to cancel North Stream 2, the pipeline that flanks 
the North Stream inaugurated ten years ago, doubling the supply of 
Russian gas to Germany. Instead, “South Stream, the Eni-Gazprom 
pipeline, failed”. Negri rightly concludes that Merkel “has won the 
game that we have lost”. The question arises spontaneously: why did 
Germany win and Italy lose?
 
The headline of the Washington Post is significant: “US, Germany reach 
agreement on Russian gas pipeline, ending dispute between allies”. The 
agreement, stipulated by President Biden with Chancellor Merkel, has 
been and is strongly opposed by a bipartisan group in Congress, led by 
Republican Senator J. Risch who proposes a law against “the malignant 
Russian project”. So the agreement is actually a “truce” (as Negri 
defines it).
 
The reason why the Biden administration has decided to stipulate it is 
to put an end to the “dispute” that was spoiling relations with 
Germany, an important NATO ally. The latter, however, had to pay the 
“pizzo” to the U.S. boss, committing itself – as requested by the 
under-Secretary of State Victoria Nuland – to “protect Ukraine” (in 
fact already a member of NATO) with an investment fund of $ 1 billion 
to compensate it for the decreased revenue, since the twin North Stream 
gas pipelines pass through the Baltic Sea bypassing its territory.
 
In return, Germany has, at least for now, US permission to import 55 
billion cubic meters of natural gas per year from Russia. The pipeline 
is managed by the international consortium Nord Stream AG, consisting 
of 5 companies: Russian Gazprom, German Wintershall and Pe-gi/E.On, 
Dutch Nederland’s Gasunie and French Engie. Germany thus becomes the 
energy hub for the Russian gas supply to the European network.
 
The same role could have been assumed by Italy with the South Stream 
pipeline. The project was born in 2006, during the Prodi Il government, 
with the agreement stipulated by Eni and Gazprom. The pipeline would 
have crossed the Black Sea (in Russian, Bulgarian and Turkish 
territorial waters) continuing overland through Bulgaria, Serbia, 
Hungary, Slovenia and Italy to Tarvisio (Udine). From here the gas 
would be routed into the European network.
 
Construction of the pipeline had begun in 2012. In March 2014, Saipem 
(Eni) was awarded an initial €2 billion contract to build the undersea 
section. In the meantime, however, while the Maidan Square putsch 
precipitated the Ukrainian crisis, the Obama administration, in concert 
with the European Commission, moved to scuttle the South Stream. In 
June 2014, a delegation from the U.S. Senate, headed by John McCain, 
arrived in Sofia and transmitted Washington’s orders to the Bulgarian 
government. Immediately this announced the blocking of the works of the 
South Stream, in which Gazprom had already invested 4.5 billion 
dollars.
 
In this way, Italy lost not only contracts worth billions of euros, but 
also the possibility of having on its territory the hub for the supply 
of Russian gas in Europe, which would have generated strong revenues 
and increased employment. Why has Italy lost all this? Because the 
Renzi government (in office from 2014 to 2016) and Parliament accepted 
Washington’s imposition with bowed heads. Merkel’s Germany, on the 
contrary, opposed it. It then opened the “dispute between allies” that 
forced Washington to accept the doubling of North Stream, while 
retaining the U.S. claim to decide which countries Europe is allowed to 
import gas from and which countries it is not allowed to import gas 
from.
 
Would an Italian government dare to open a dispute with Washington to 
defend one of our national interests? The fact is that Italy has lost 
not only the pipeline, but its own sovereignty.
 
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Mi hanno deposto coi brogli

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In questo momento il Paese Occidentale che marcia di più è l'Italia.
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Riccardomustodario scriveva il 7/30/2021 :
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Messo male il mondo occidentale.
 
Compreremo gas dai crucchi, e li pagheremo.
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L'economia con il passare del tempo equivale a mera stronzata, salvo per quei cento ed anche meno, i quali gestiscono l'affare mondiale, costoro possono prendere ciò che vogliono, i paesi occidentali stanno pieni di soldi
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Scriveva Riccardomustodario Saturday, 7/31/2021:
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Compreremo il gas russo dai crucchi perche siamo colonia di vigliacchi, 
e lo pagheremo caro.
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