March 14, 2025 (EIRNS)—RT reported that “Washington and Moscow are in talks on a major deal that would allow for the resumption of Russian energy exports, German investigative newsroom Correctiv reported on March 13, citing its own investigation. RT reported: “A potential agreement could involve American companies purchasing some parts of the Nord Stream pipeline infrastructure, as well as stakes in three German refineries currently owned by a subsidiary of the Russian energy giant Rosneft, the report said.
“The discussions have supposedly been ongoing ‘for months’ and are said to include conditions for the resumption of Russian oil and gas exports to the EU.”
Back in November, the Washington Post had written that an American businessman named Steven Lynch (not the Congressman) “is seeking to acquire the Swiss-based operating company that controls Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines, according to U.S. Treasury and other documents.” Lynch, reportedly known to Trump, had formerly been based in Moscow working on contracts with Rosneft, and was “potentially laying the ground for the controversial natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany to be reactivated in case a cease-fire is reached in the war in Ukraine,” according to the Post. He was “pitching it” to Trump and to Russian contacts.
There is considerable distance, not explained by RT, between President Trump’s previous-term public campaign against Nord Stream and Russian natural gas, and talks on a “major deal” between the United States and Russia to provide that gas to Europe now, in Trump’s current Presidency. A waiver has just expired, which during the past three years has continued to allow some European purchases of Russian gas delivered through other pipelines; so that at the present time, those purchases are banned by U.S. sanctions.