US and Russian officials discuss potential US investment in Nord Stream pipelines
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The Facts
- US and Russian officials discussed potential US investment in the Nord Stream pipelines.
- Jared Kushner and Kirill Dmitriev participated in the discussions.
- Nord Stream previously transported Russian gas to Germany before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
- A potential deal could allow US investors to profit from energy supplies to Europe after the war.
- Dmitriev and Kushner met in Moscow and New York in recent weeks.
- A White House official said there had been no recent discussions about Nord Stream.
- Any deal would require agreement between Russia, the US International Development Finance Corporation, and the US Treasury, according to a White House official.
Context
Who took part in the reported talks?
People familiar with the discussions said they included US Special Envoy Jared Kushner and Kirill Dmitriev, a close adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Reuters unian
What would a Nord Stream investment arrangement involve?
The reported discussions concerned bringing a US investor into Nord Stream, potentially enabling US investors to profit from energy flows to Europe once the war ends. Reuters Deutsche Welle
Where Left and Right agree, and where they split
- Where Left and Right agree
- Both frames accept that American investors stand to profit from a postwar Nord Stream arrangement and that such a deal requires US government sign-off.
- Where Left and Right split
- The left and the right split on whether a US stake in Nord Stream is leverage to end the war or a legitimacy risk.
- Why they won’t converge
- Even if both sides agree on who met whom, they divide on whether a peace process shaped by investors who stand to profit can ever count as legitimate — a values question no fact resolves.
How left and right read it
Whatever ends this war has to be built in public, because a peace whose terms are negotiated by people positioned to profit from them is not a peace Europeans or Ukrainians had any say in. So who would own the gain?
Ending this war takes leverage, and a pipeline that once carried Russian gas to Germany is real leverage — if Americans hold a stake in how it runs. Because no arrangement moves without agreement from the Development Finance Corporation and Treasury, the terms would require American sign-off, and American investors rather than Moscow alone would profit from postwar supply to Europe. Pursue that opening.
A stake in Nord Stream buys the US a seat at the table — the fight is over whether that seat means leverage or lost legitimacy.
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