While the global economic crisis is accelerating, Chinese statesmen are rubbing their hands: now is the right time to part with the U.S. dollar and make yuan a global reserve currency.
Even at the symbolical level, Americans have expressed the desire for fundamental changes by electing, for the first time in the history of the United States of America, a black president.
Popular statements about green energy are trendy, but they are unlikely to be followed by radical changes to U.S. energy policy because there is too much money at stake.
Given the risk of a new trade war between the EU and the U.S., an increasing number of Western experts believe that the EU may once again choose Russia as its main supplier of natural gas.
The U.S. needs a good reason to shut down Nord Stream 2, because everyone in the West realizes that all is moving toward its logical conclusion: The pipeline will be certified in Germany shortly.