Alexander Gauland
Nord Stream 2
AfD Kompakt, December
12, 2019
[Alexander
Gauland is a chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland delegation in the
German Bundestag.]
The House of Representatives’s resolution is a
mistake since sanctions have never yet been of any use and in the end hurt both
sides. The reasoning that Germany by means of the gas pipeline will become
dependent in energy policy upon Russia is only making excuses. The opposite is
correct. Nord Stream 2, in regards the over hasty withdrawal from coal and
nuclear, is decisive for the securing of Germany’s energy supply. Without gas
imports from Russia, the risks to energy security in Germany would further increase.
Behind the sanctions resolution of the House of Representatives stand many,
large economic interests of the United States which, in place of the Russian
natural gas, would sell to Germany the quite expensive, American liquefied gas.
Washington should accept that we ourselves choose from whom we obtain our
energy providers, instead of threatening with sanctions by
which all can only lose.
[Translated by Todd
Martin]
