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When Trump calls Russia a 'competitor' for the US, he might be talking about natural gas exports

  • Written by Anna Mikulska, Nonresident Fellow in Energy Studies, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Vladimir Putin, autographing a natural gas pipeline in VladivostokAP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin

President Donald Trump complained during recent NATO meetings and through Twitter about how, in his opinion, Germany is “captive to Russia” because of that country’s reliance on Russian energy, especially natural gas.

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