the south of germany. the nord stream pipeline was to cut all of the european mainland pipelines out and they may have gone on to other european nations. times have changed enormously. the german chancellor, gerhart schroeder who hatched that deal, now works for a successor part of the pipeline, the nord stream 2 that s supposed to come in some time in the months ahead. as nnin was saying, angela merkl is wise to that and they re looking at liquid gas, potentially from the united states, to take up needs in the german gas market. but more importantly, donald trump in his sort of historical role as u.s. commander in chief, is supposed to come along and be the leader of the nato alliance, not the man to point out its holes. and right now we have all the neighbors along russia s borders here with eastern europe deeply in need of extra military enforcement. norway are asking for more u.s. troops to come in and assist on their borders. many exercises along other parts
fed up with the treatment that they are experiencing from washington some here found some strong words there was talk about trisha s that. and washington unpredictability and even hostile action against european interests so that much is quite clear but what do you but europeans do here is a bit more nuanced they say we will not negotiate with a gun to our head so trump has to remove this threat of sanctions still hanging over them on the other hand they put our offers on the table they say we will talk for instance about liquid to gas this sale of liquid gas to europe something that trump wants and they track about. other trade barriers that could be removed slowly but surely it s. in the w g o so they make offers to washington and they say we know your interests and we are ready to sort of come across we are ready to talk to you but only if you stop threatening us so that s quite clear from the position and
trip to convince the moroccan government to start importing american natural liquid gas to meet the country s energy needs. that s a weird thing for an epa administrator to do. noted that epa plays no formal reel. such activities are over seen by other u.s. government agencies like the energy department and regulatory agency farc. the only active liquified natural gas export plant in the united states at that time was one owned by taniar energy. it s a carl icahn joint. activist shareholder. it s fun to read through the business reporting about carl icahn using leverage to get the ceo of the company fired. that big of a shareholder with that power at the energy
and factory so-called floating boat. but we can be independent on thes today suppthe d thes today gas supply because of that and this gives us strength and possibility to make our own decisions not to defend on one supplier and miles per hoamerics will come on time.possibility t decisions not to defend on one supplier and american liquid gas will come on time. and make us more independent in our decision making. this is about a real friendship, a real cooperation between our region and the united states. and this comes also together with the trade where today we see some discussions on the world level between the united states and european union. we are together with the decisions that the trade needs to be useful and equally fair to all sides.
baltic states on the gas supply because of that. and gives us strength and possibility to make our own decisions not to depend on one supplier and american liquid gas will come on time and will make us more independent in our decision making and diversifies our gas supply. this is about a real friendship, about a real cooperation between our region and the united states. and this comes also with trade masters, where today we see some discussions on the well pair level between the united states and european union. we are together with the decisions that the trade needs to be useful and equally fair to all sides. there is no sense to go to war but if there are imbalances, they need to be fixed. this we will support as an ally of the united states. so together with international