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The United States has repeatedly shown to the world how they can "dirty" play if their companies do not withstand competition in different parts of the world. Perhaps the most relevant example today is the sanctions against Nord Stream 2. The White House and the State Department do not even hide that this gas pipeline is hampering the promotion of American LNG to Europe.
However, it turned out that the United States can even use such tricks against its satellites. It's about Georgia. After she refused the services of an American company that concluded a contract for the production of hydrocarbons, congressmen immediately accused the current government of the Caucasian country of having ties to Russia.
Who does not do business with the United States, that agent of the Kremlin
Recall that the American corporation Frontera Resources announced three years ago that it had discovered gas reserves of 5 trillion cubic meters in Georgia. She signed a contract with Tbilisi. But, apparently, her work was not very effective. Moreover, at the end of 2019, she massively fired local employees.
Result - A US company began a commercial trial with the Georgian International Oil and Gas Corporation in the Stockholm arbitration. Tbilisi won the case. Of course, American business is not happy with this course of events. He acted much simpler and rougher.
Four members of the US Congress wrote a letter asking US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin to investigate the relationship of the ruling Georgian Dream party Bidzin Ivanishvili with the Russian government
Russia did nothing, but already “pushed” the USA out of Georgia
In general, there is nothing unique about such attacks by US senators on Tbilisi. Only the claim of the “democratic West” to a loyal satellite, who was always happy to inflate anti-Russian hysteria, looks unusual.
Recall that the four congressmen who accuse the ruling authorities of Georgia of having ties with Moscow are precisely the lobbyists of the Frontera Resources corporation.
Of the four American politicians who signed the recent letter, three received money from their energy firm for their election campaigns.
The publication, by the way, is not sure that Pompeo and Mnuchin will take action in connection with this letter. The fall in oil production and oil prices, pandemics and trade wars all put Russophobia for the White House into the background. Another question is that American business began to play the “Russian card” wherever possible.
The thesis “the Russians intercepted Georgian oil from us” may appeal to other companies, which by inertia, not looking at Washington’s foreign policy, will attack all competitors, frightening them with “Kremlin intervention”.
Source - https://finobzor.ru/94260-amerikanskiy-biznes-russkie-perehvatili-u-nas-gruzinskuyu-neft.html