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Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇦 Profile picture
@BLSchmitt
Jun 11 • 6 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
[1]🚨BREAKING🚨Calls for Manuela Schwesig to resign reemerged today, after revelations that she promoted a deal to sell helicopter & drone parts to Russia in 2018, despite the fact that the CEO of the receiving firm, Russian Helicopters, was already under EU sanctions

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[2] Revelation about Schwesig comes after years of scandal around her leadership of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, after she facilitated the creation of a fake “climate foundation” funded aimed at circumventing sanctions on Putin’s #NordStream2 & a ship it owned…
[3] Just this week, I reminded #CanadianParliament that both the “climate foundation” and the #NordStream2 construction vessel it supported - the BLUE SHIP- remain unsanctioned today - decisions that can and should be reversed immediately by the US and EU‼️
[4] Not reversing this costly sanctions decision will only embolden Putin and other authoritarian regimes to set up phony NGOs in democratic countries to attempt to skirt sanctions, undermining the power of Western counter-threat financing programs globally if not addressed…
[5] I wrote about the Gazprom-owned #NordStream2 AG funded “Climate Foundation” scandal & called on the Biden Admin to reverse its decision to avoid sanctioning the BLUE SHIP - despite engaging in sanctionable activity, already in late 2021 for @cepa:

cepa.org/article/nord-s…
[6] Full Story on the latest revelation over the Russian helicopter deal can be found here [END] telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

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Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇦 Profile picture
Jul 21, 2022
🧵 [1] JUST OUT: A statement from the @FSIStanford @McFaul-led International Working Group on Russia Sanctions calling on Canada to reverse #NordStream1 turbine sanctions waiver decision & for German & US governments to politically endorse the reversal👇

drive.google.com/file/d/13IfWfw…
[2] Working Group co-signers of this statement calling for a reversal of the Siemens turbine sanctions waiver include: @McFaul, @JohnEdHerbst, @Nataliia_Shapo, @edwardfishman, @FukuyamaFrancis, @kath_stoner, @steven_pifer, @ben_moll, @MSnegovaya, Richard Morningstar & many more!
[3] The export controls waiver sets an unacceptable sanctions precedent that only emboldens the Putin regime to weaponize its energy leverage over Europe under the guise of dubious technical justifications.
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Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇦 Profile picture
May 28, 2022
[1] “Once one dismisses the rest of all possible worlds, one finds that this is the best of all possible worlds”

This @washingtonpost retelling of the #NordStream2 sanctions saga borders on the Panglossian by missing key elements:

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washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
[2] First, the article suggests that the metric by which the July 2021 “deal” to drop mandatory, bipartisan Congressional sanctions to stop the Kremlin-backed #NordStream2 pipeline was an agreement focused such that if Putin invaded Ukraine, Berlin would stop the project:
[3] The article then includes a statement from Germany’s Ambassador to the US, calling the July 2021 “deal” to give the Putin regime’s marquee energy influence project a pass from mandatory sanctions “a sublime form” of “partnership management”:
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Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇦 Profile picture
May 14, 2022
🧵[1] The Kremlin & other defenders of #Russia’s state-owned oil & gas firms have long claimed variations on the theme that #Moscow’s energy projects are “just commercial” & “Russia has always been a reliable energy supplier”

Really⁉️

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cepa.org/natos-eastern-…
[2] 👀 “Russia has always been a reliable energy supplier”

(13 May 2022)

rferl.org/a/31848687.html
[3] 👀 “Russia has always been a reliable energy supplier”

(12 May 2022)

reuters.com/world/europe/r…
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May 10, 2022
🧵 [1] JUST OUT: The 2nd report I’ve coauthored with the recently-formed International Working Group on Russia Sanctions, coordinated by @FSIStanford @McFaul outlining urgent comprehensive energy embargoes & sanctions on Putin’s regime.

👇Highlights👇

fsi.stanford.edu/working-group-…
[2] 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦Working Group is comprised of a stellar lineup of Transatlantic security experts that coauthored this report, including: @Nataliia_Shapo, @AmbDanFried, @maria_shagina, @edwardfishman, @RichardMNephew, @FukuyamaFrancis, @kath_stoner, @steven_pifer, @OlgaBielkova & more!
[3] For our second report, we have focused on a comprehensive set of “smart embargoes”, sanctions, and policy measures to rapidly limit the ability of the #Kremlin to raise further state revenues via energy sales abroad to the greatest extent possible.
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Apr 27, 2022
🧵 [1] ALERT: Kremlin-controlled #Gazprom informed #Polish & #Bulgarian officials that it suspended natural gas deliveries to both countries, once again demonstrating how #Moscow continues to weaponize energy against Europe.

👇Details below & in thread👇

apnews.com/article/russia…
[2] 👀 First, the latest flow rates reported by the EU @ENTSOG natural gas network flow transparency portal. According to ENTSOG, Gazprom physical flows at the Kondratki entry point to the Yamal transmission pipeline at the Poland-Belarus border is near zero:
[3] 👀 Meanwhile, @ENTSOG shows the gas flows across at Strandzha-2 interconnector, the entry point of Gazprom’s #TurkStream2 pipeline to the Bulgarian gas transmission system operated by #Bulgartransgaz sharply decreasing in last few days:
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Apr 20, 2022
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[1]JUST OUT: Report that I’ve coauthored with the recently-formed International Working Group on Russia Sanctions, coordinated by @FSIStanford @McFaul outlining an urgent comprehensive sanctions package on the Putin regime.

👇Highlights below👇

fsi.stanford.edu/working-group-…
[2] 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦The Working Group is comprised of a stellar lineup of experts that coauthored this report, including: @AmbDanFried, @maria_shagina, @edwardfishman, @FukuyamaFrancis, @kath_stoner, @steven_pifer, @fromTGA & many more!
[3] The Group placed an outsized focus on measures that will rapidly & drastically reduce the Kremlin’s ability to continue its criminal war of aggression against Ukraine - targeting Russian hydrocarbon export & banking sector, as well as tightening critical tech export controls.
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