In her new book Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021, published on Nov. 26, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered the following:
“The United States argued that its security interests were affected by the building of the pipeline because its ally Germany would make itself too dependent on Russia. In truth, I felt that the United States was mobilizing its formidable economic and financial resources to prevent the business ventures of other countries, even their allies.... The United States was chiefly interested in its own economic interests, as it wanted to export to Europe LNG obtained through fracking.”
