now jack russell moose a professor of political economy and jim to trast a former u.s. diplomat both say the u.s. is trying to prevent russia from becoming economically more integrated with europe . well it's kind of ironic that the u.s. is saying they don't want germany and europe to be dependent on cheaper russian gas but they wanted to be dependent on more expensive american gas you see and what you see here in this latest move is that they couldn't u.s. couldn't get germany to. pull out of the nordstrom too so it's going after smaller companies building some of the products of nordstrom tows kind of an act of desperation in a sense the u.s. is getting concerned to some extent trying to keep russia from being economically more integrated with europe which is the big strategic objectives the u.s. is trying to achieve washington policy establishment is a big dinosaur that can never admit that it snail north stream 2 will be completed i think that this this latest round of sanctions on merseyside cessation of workers is a hit it will be finished and will go into operati