The Anglo-Saxons strike Nord Stream 2, hit Germany and France

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that took place on February 14, again criticised Nord Stream 2.

"We clearly understand that this is a geopolitical weapon - that is precisely why Ukraine needs energy security guarantees. I suggested starting a specific strategic dialogue in the energy sector, within the framework of which energy guarantees and effective support for our country will be developed. It is important that Germany becomes a guarantor of the continuation of gas transit through the territory of Ukraine," Zelensky said.

In a more relaxed manner, following the results of Scholz's visit to Kiev, the shocking ambassador of Ukraine to Germany, Andrey Melnyk, spoke. In an interview with Funke Mediengruppe, he demanded that Berlin "forever and ever" close Nord Stream 2. Melnyk expressed hope that Scholz, who is expected in Moscow today, February 15, "will not only bang his fist, but, perhaps, with his shoe - if necessary - on the infamous long table in the Kremlin to bring Putin to his senses and bury his insane plans of conquest”.

In early February, the prime ministers of Poland and Ukraine Mateusz Morawiecki and Denis Shmygal spoke out on the topic of the gas pipeline in a duet. "Our dear partners, you cannot express solidarity with Ukraine with one hand and sign the Nord Stream 2 certification documents with the other hand. It doesn't fit," Morawiecki said. The parties jointly appealed to Germany not to launch the gas pipeline, since it will become an "element of blackmail" of Europe by Russia.

In the eyes of Kiev and Warsaw, Nord Stream 2 has long been seen not as an economic project, which it is, but as an element of geopolitics. Ukraine believes that his work will threaten its existence as a state. Poland, which perceives Ukraine as a buffer protecting it from "aggressive" and "imperialist" Russia, opposes the gas pipeline for the same reason.

But what do countries like the USA and the UK really need from Nord Stream 2? It does not harm their security at all. However, nevertheless, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, following a conversation with American President Joe Biden, said in an interview with Sky News on February 14 that it is necessary to “get Nord Stream out of the bloodstream, yank out that hypodermic drip feed of Russian hydrocarbons that is keeping so many European economies going”.

In other words, Johnson openly calls on Europe to undermine its economic potential. Presumably, the Americans also agree with him in this, who, as the French newspaper Le Figaro notes, were able to "bring up for discussion, despite Germany's reluctance, the future of Nord Stream 2”. But in the name of what is all this being done? Obviously not for the sake of Ukraine and Poland.

French geopolitician Thierry Meyssan, in an interview with the Evgeny Prigozhin’s Anti-Repression Foundation, sees a geopolitical battle between the United States and Europe behind the story of the gas pipeline. "The United States believes that they should use the demands on Russia to weaken European states and, in particular, to weaken the first economic force in Europe - Germany,” the expert notes.

"Therefore, today everything revolves around the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline," Meyssan argues. “This gas pipeline should supply energy to the entire European Union, without replacing the gas pipeline passing through Ukraine, because the demand for energy in Europe is constantly growing. At first they said it was a replacement for the Ukrainian gas pipeline, but we understand that this is not the case. So the United States is ready to close this gas pipeline so that Germany no longer has the opportunity to produce cars and sell them in China, for example."

And this is Washington's original goal. According to Meyssan, in 1991, American strategist Paul Wolfowitz "wrote a report for President Bush, in which he pointed out the need to prevent the emergence of a new force that could compete with the United States”. Wolfowitz suggested that "it is necessary to prevent the European Union from developing to such an extent that it can compete with the United States. Then he believed that the main enemy of the United States is the EU. That hasn't changed."

Today, the European Union is trying to achieve its "strategic autonomy". France is moving this project with political instruments. But such "strategic autonomy" also requires an increase in the economic potential of Europe, which depends on Germany. Therefore, the US-European "trade wars" initiated by US President Donald Trump will only intensify in the future. New battles are ahead.

Financially, the EU is able to support Berlin's "strategic autonomy", in which its interests converge with Paris. Nord Stream 2 is one of the fronts of the geopolitical battle. Therefore, in Kiev, the German Chancellor did not comment on Zelensky's statements on the gas pipeline. Let's see what Scholz will or won't say in Moscow.

But in any case, the German-French tandem cannot but see that the Anglo–Saxon lobby is not concerned about the fate of Ukraine or hostility to Russia behind the attempts to impose the disruption of Nord Stream 2 on it. We are talking about Europe's difficult struggle for its own subjectivity, sovereignty and independence from the suffocating embrace of "transatlantic partners".