Brenda Shaffer in Newsweek.
“It is not clear if this [bill] gets to the floor for a vote. It might be a Hail Mary symbolic gesture. But I think it plays into the Russian narrative, even if it has the opposite intention,” Brenda Shaffer, an energy analyst at Georgetown University, told Newsweek.
“Russia is constantly saying that the U.S. wants to block Nord Stream 2 to promote LNG. I think that’s incorrect, but by linking these two things, non-discretionary sanctions on Nord Stream 2 and LNG, it reinforces feelings in Germany and elsewhere that this is about U.S. market share,” Shaffer continued.