The United States’ policy is to compete with Russia on the global energy market, U.S. President Donald Trump said.
"Look at my policies on energy… I’m opening up our country to natural gas and oil. It is competition for Russia," the American leader said in an interview with Fox Business.
He emphasized that it was him who had raised the issue of Germany paying "billions of dollars" for Russian natural gas.
"Everyone knew about it, but no one talked about it. I made it a big issue,” Trump added.
Earlier, Trump said that Germany was completely controlled by Russia through natural gas supplies. He believes it absolutely impermissible for Germany to pay billions of dollars for Russian gas and planning to build a new pipeline to bring it in (Nord Stream 2) while the United States must defend it as a NATO ally by disproportionally spending more on defense than Berlin does, Sputnik recalls.
