An intriguing new Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that within a few hours of Vice-President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic celebrating the agreement on gas transit reached between Russia and Ukraine yesterday that he said “assures Russia will remain a reliable gas supplier to European markets”, President Donald Trump signed into law a new $738 billion defense budget that he allowed his socialist Democrat Party enemies to insert into crushing sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project—sanctions so severe it caused the Swiss-Dutch company Allseas this morning to immediately cease its work on this 745-mile-long twin pipeline that will carry up to 55 billion cubic meters (1.942 trillion cubic feet) of gas per year from Russia to Germany through the territorial waters or exclusive economic zones of Denmark, Finland, Germany, Russia and Sweden—which, in turn, caused Germany to erupt in outrage and brand these US sanctions as an “interference in domestic affairs”, with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel further vowing that her nation “won’t back down”—but is a pipeline these US sanctions can’t stop as Nord Stream 2 administrators vowed that “the companies committed to the project will be working to complete it as soon as possible”—the most important of them being Russian gas giant Gazprom, who is now preparing to lay pipeline for the one last stretch of Nord Stream 2 near the Danish island of Bornholm still to be covered that Allseas just abandoned—a reality admitted to by retired former American diplomat Jim Jatras with his stating” “Nord Stream 2 will be completed…this latest round of sanctions and this cessation of workers is a hiccup…It will be finished and will go into operation”—all of which appears to make nonsensical what Trump is trying to achieve with these sanctions—that is until one notices that this now signed into law US defense budget also contains crushing sanctions on the Turkish Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey, as well as its containing further sanctions against Turkey for its purchasing of the Russian S-400 missile defense system—sanctions that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to retaliate against exactly like German leader Merkel has declared she intends on doing, too—with the most important aspect of what Trump is doing against both Germany and Turkey is able to be fully understood by one’s noticing that they are both two of the most powerful members of the NATO alliance—a Western military alliance said in 2013 had no actual purpose and that Trump has railed against, most particularly Germany whom he branded as “NATO’s biggest freeloader”—and by Trump having just become the first American leader in history to attack two of NATO’s most powerful member states with crushing sanctions, surprisingly sees only former Vice President Joe Biden sounding the alarm about what Trump’s endgame is with his warning “If Trump gets re-elected, there will be no more NATO”…

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