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A Miami Financier Is Quietly Trying to Buy Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline​

An American investor with a history of dealmaking in Russia has asked the U.S. government to allow him to bid on the sabotaged Nord Stream Pipeline 2 if it comes up for auction in a Swiss bankruptcy proceeding.

Stephen P. Lynch spent two decades doing business in Moscow and now wants to buy the natural-gas pipeline that runs from Russia to Germany. He has argued to U.S. officials and lawmakers that American ownership of the pipeline would provide leverage in any peace negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine and serve U.S. long-term interests.
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“The bottom line is this: This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for American and European control over European energy supply for the rest of the fossil-fuel era,” Lynch said in a rare interview.
Lynch, who lives in Miami and was a large contributor to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has told people “he wants to be the richest guy you’ve never heard of,” but his audacious plan would thrust the former Peace Corps volunteer into public view.

The 765-mile-long pipeline had been a crown jewel of Russia’s petro economy linking its vast gas fields to Europe. It was completed before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and never became commercially operational. It is owned by a subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned gas giant Gazprom, a unit that filed for bankruptcy in Switzerland days after the invasion. In September 2022, subsea explosions destroyed one of the pipeline’s two trunks. The other remains intact but unused.
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Best vassal state Germany.
 
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Overbom said:
"Strong" resume. Trump is really draining the swamp...
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1860602176021885175
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Alex Wong reminds me of Miles Yu, the main China advisor to Pompeo as sectary of state during Trump's last term who supposedly helped shape his entire China policy, the policy that we can now see helped China enormously.

Miles went to Nankai in Tianjin to study history, and then, after supposedly being "inspired" by Regan, and with nothing but a history degree, went to study in the US in 1985, and within 10 years became a Professor at US Naval Academy. It's actually pretty incredible someone with a Nankai background could advance so fast and so far in the US defence and national security circle, lol

I generally look at the end effect of people's actions, or proposed actions, before judging a person, after all the best agents are those people wonder least about, and for China that means someone whose maximumally critical of China.
 
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gelgoog said:
Anyone who had been following Russian news would know that Russia put sanctions on food imports from the EU, they switched their banking system to no longer work on SWIFT or VISA/Mastercard internally. They created SPFS and the Mir card, and the state gave low interest rate loans to any company which wanted to bring their supply chain inside Russia. This was done all the way since at least 2014 to 2022. In some sectors this started around 2008 even.

All the money the Russian central bank had saved in Dollars was converted into either Yuan or gold, they only kept their Euro denominated savings in Western currency.

They massively increased the size of the Russian army with many new armored formations being brought up all the time to keep up with the size of the increasing Ukrainian army. At one time I grew suspicious since they weren't even modernizing the tanks they brought from the stockpiles anymore, they just refurbished them and made new formations as they were. That was like the year before they went into Ukraine.
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And was keeping currency in Euros right move?
 
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