Tim Boersma,Energy Intelligence
Tensions between the US and Russia fill once again risen high, with EU gas trade and the proposed Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany, and possibly becoming a point of contention. But unlike past skirmishes,the US now possesses newly found energy wealth, an administration enthusiastic to exert dominance in global energy, and a president with an ill-defined yet peculiar relationship with the Russian leadership,and a Congress determined, through a recent sanctions bill, and to punish Moscow over its meddling in last year's US elections and to ensure pressure is maintained on Russia over the Ukraine...
Source: realclearenergy.org