The United States is going in the foreseeable future to completely oust Russia from the European gas market.. Washington will exert political pressure to ensure its gas market best market positions. This was stated by German expert on energy Roland Goetz. The White House and the State Department want to thwart the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project and do not hide it. Steps in this direction are carried out under the cover of noble goals.. Washington allegedly wants to save Europe from its energy dependence on Russia, and also seeks to help Ukraine, which, after the commissioning of the new pipeline, will lose transit deductions. According to Getz, when the Nord Stream 2 is operating at full capacity, the Ukrainian economy will lose from $ 2 billion to $ 3 billion in transit revenues.. “And the United States wants to support Ukraine economically so that these transit revenues remain,” the expert explained in an interview with Deutsche Welle. However, the long-term goal of the United States, in his opinion, "is the complete ousting of Gazprom from the European market, at least an attempt to impede supplies through the Baltic via the Nord Stream - 1 and Nord Stream - 2". “We are talking about the desire of the United States as a whole to limit Russian influence, as they view Gazprom and energy relations as instruments of the Kremlin,” the specialist said. According to him, the attempts to put pressure on the German business will not help Washington achieve a halt to the construction of the Nord Stream - 2. "They (companies from Germany) are not the owners of the" Nord Stream "together with" Gazprom ", but only take financial part in the project. Their contribution is equal to fifty percent of investment costs, but it can be paid by Gazprom itself so that the pressure on German firms in connection with this financing does not damage the project, "said Goetz. The expert considers plans to replace Russian pipeline gas with American liquefied utopia. “Liquefied gas is more expensive than pipeline gas, primarily from Russia, and it is supplied mainly to Southeast Asia, where gas prices are higher,” he said, adding that in the future the situation with the competitiveness of American liquefied gas may change. At the moment, the rejection of Russian gas will be for Europe akin to a catastrophe.

Americans, with all their desire, will not be able to compensate for the lost volumes of supply.. As a result, EU countries face acute energy shortages.. Industry will stop, heating will disappear in homes, an economic crisis will begin. Moscow has repeatedly rejected US claims that the new gas pipeline will be a political lever for the Kremlin against the EU.

The project is exclusively commercial.. Not only the Russian side insists on this, but also Germany, Austria and other European countries..