Imagine that, nobody wants to trade with an erratic dictatorship.
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It's more of a risk assessment than anything else. The US has proven to be erratic in honouring treaties and contracts, which makes them unreliable. Gas supply is a critical infrastructure and failures in delivery have grave consequences.
TL,DR: Shove your gas up your ass, Pedonald.
Trump treats his trading partners like shit. He hikes tariffs and throws tantrums daily. Now he wants to sell something and no one trusts him enough to sign the deal.
Tired of all that winning yet, America?
The scale of the flop was striking. Out of nearly 72 gigawatt-hours of pipeline capacity offered to companies across three different entry routes, a minuscule 48 megawatt-hours — less than 0.1 percent of the total on offer — were eventually booked. A similar auction in December was even more of a flop, attracting no bids at all.
Who cares. Donnie got a deal that Europe would buy a bajillion gas, so he won.
That deal was not finalized, and EU just put it back in the fridge after Donald's little tantrum about Greenland iirc
That's what I mean. Ursula promised a bunch of impossible things, Donnie got his headlines and his "win" and the EU quietly scrapped the whole thing afterwards.
Even before Greenland, deal was worthless, the EU had no way of forcing the purshase of gas (especially more gas than the US even produces) or the investment in a specific country by the private sector. The whole thing was a farce.