Interesting read from 2019
Senate Bill S. 1102 deals a direct blow to Russia, but also to Europe. Stopping the North Stream 2 having been unsuccessful, the United States synchronously approaches from the south to take control of energy flows there and impose its gas prices on Europeans.
The U.S. Senate introduced S. 1102 on April 10, in the spirit of bipartisan consensus, by Florida Republican Marco Rubio and New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez. The bill arrived in the House of Representatives on May 22 (H.R. 2913) with some additions and is currently being read in five committees and a Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate will return to work on September 9, 2019.
“Russia: Get out of the Mediterranean!”
The scary word “Russia” is in the text no fewer than 25 times. In fact, the bill prohibits Russia from conducting any foreign policy or developing any economic cooperation in the region.
First, the bill aims to oust Russian gas from Europe by capitalizing on new gas fields off the coast of Egypt, Israel and Cyprus, and building pipelines to transport this gas. These include the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), the Gas Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB) pipeline, as well as liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, all with the aim to “facilitate delivery of non-Russian gas to the Balkans and Central Europe.” It straightforwardly states: “non-Russian.”
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2019/08/25/eastern-mediterranean-project-u-s-plans-to-curb-russia-from-region/
