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- President Donald Trump’s administration has started to make some of the first LNG deliveries to Eastern Europe, and it undercuts Russia’s influence and business in the region.
- By providing an alternative source of energy, Eastern European countries won’t have to rely as much on Russia, which has weilded its influence heavily there.
- Even if the US doesn’t make up a huge share of the energy market in Europe, its presence will still change the way business is done.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Last July, U.S. President Donald Trump stood beside his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, in Warsaw and promised to help wean the nation off Russian energy imports. He offered U.S. fuel as an alternative, “so that you can never be held hostage to a single supplier.”
Trump was tapping into longstanding European concerns about Russia’s ability to shut off natural gas supplies – which it has done in past pricing disputes. U.S. lawmakers say Russia’s influence over energy has proven effective in silencing critics of its human rights abuses, annexation of Crimea, and incursion into eastern Ukraine, an assertion the Kremlin has denied.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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