The Biden administration aggressively sanctioned Russia’s gas industry, successfully stymieing the Kremlin’s efforts to open a new facility to export liquefied natural gas — the version of the methane-based fuel super-chilled to a liquid form for more efficient transportation — in the Arctic. By picking Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as his nominee for secretary of state, however, Trump selected a potential top diplomat who “has consistently wanted to punish Russia for its aggression in Ukraine but has come to believe that a negotiated settlement between Moscow and Kyiv is the only realistic way to end the war,” according to a recent analysis by Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. The money, part of a cumulative $2.6 billion Washington granted Chișinău over the past three decades, served the Biden White House’s dual goals of weaning Moldova off Russian energy and slashing carbon emissions by redirecting the country’s electricity demand from a gas plant to a nuclear-powered system in Romania, a NATO ally.
Author: Alexander C. Kaufman
Published at: 2024-11-30 13:00:10
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