“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,” Merkel writes her new book, ‘Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021’, published on November 26.
“The United States was chiefly interested in its own economic interests, as it wanted to export to Europe LNG obtained through fracking.”