So, at the end of last week, although with some hesitation, you and I, in general, are not particularly interesting, the US House of Representatives still - quite, however, expectedly - approved a bill on financing the State Department in 2022.

With some amendments, as they say.

And what is especially interesting for us there - these "amendments", among other things, imply the deprivation of the current US President Joe Biden of the right to waive sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

It is curious, by the way, that the author of this amendment was Biden's party member, the representative of the Democratic Party from Ohio, Marcy Captur: the detail for America is as delightful as it is symbolic.

And testifying more to the troubles within the US Democratic Party itself than to anything else.

For the sake of justice, for the time being, this cannot be considered a "law" proper.

First, the bill will have to be considered and adopted by the Senate, where it will be transferred in the near future, and then it will be signed by Joe Biden himself, thereby putting the current American president in a very tricky position - which, in fact, the authors of the amendments are trying to achieve.

However, the current American leader and the noble apparatchik himself will somehow get out (or won't get out).

But it will be very interesting to observe all this from the point of view of internal - including internal party - American politics.

What is perhaps the most curious thing here.

Not only will the United States not be able to interfere with the construction of the gas pipeline, which is almost completed a few days ago, right now.

All the unique practical absurdity of the situation lies in the fact that the American politicians themselves quite clearly understand this: after all, one should not consider them as completely mossy and overgrown with moss sunny idiots.

There are also plenty of such people there - as, alas, everywhere else - but mostly they are still more pragmatic people, solving some of their specific tasks.

And you will still laugh, but for the most part - the tasks are quite financial.

It's just that if the solutions to these problems do not coincide with the reality outside the window, then well, the path will then be worse than this reality itself.

You might think you have never seen how the US military budget is drawn up.

Well, these European pieces of iron still go along the bottom of the distant sea.

And neither they themselves, nor the gas going (or not going) along them, are generally visible to anyone around.

And what is really happening there, in general, no one is interested.

But respected people can, right here and now, cut down a very real, most often political, but, quite possibly, some other gesheft.

The world, you know, is bizarre and varied.

And not the representative of the Democratic Party from Ohio, Marcy Captur was the first here, you know, such intricate combinations began.

In this sense, the traditions in the United States are generally quite rich.

What can I say here?

It is not yet very clear to us whether the respected Democratic Congressman from distant Ohio has achieved his goals.

But the reaction along the outer contour - both in Europe and in Russia - was quite predictable.

In Europe, in the spirit of the same “theater of democratic absurdity,” Armin Laschet, the most probable successor to the current Frau Bundeskanzlyarin, spoke rather subtly. What is especially characteristic, in an interview with the Polish Rzeczpospolita, which was immediately reprinted by the German Die Welt, of course.

In which the aforementioned Laschet even threatened Russia with sanctions if it takes "aggressive actions against Ukraine." True, he did it rather mockingly, at least to the taste of a sophisticated observer, adding that it is precisely the pipeline agreement between the United States and Germany that provides a tool with which they can "jointly bring Russia to justice for destructive activities." Which looks somehow very cynical, given that, perhaps, today not only the whole world, but even the most stubborn Polish "Westernizers" and the most notorious Ukrainian Russophobes understand perfectly well that the main beneficiary of Nord Stream 2 and the winner of the "transit war" is precisely Germany. Which simply gobbled up its competitors, who had ridden either the “Polish” or the “Ukrainian gas corridors”.

And the Russians, in general, are just suppliers of energy raw materials.

And without them, what about Nord Stream 2, what about the Polish and / or even the Ukrainian GTS, nothing is even interesting to anyone - because who needs these pipes if they do not receive gas, which can only be "Russian" - there is no other, in general.

In Russia itself, they commented on this initiative even more maliciously.

The "stream" that is "working" with might and main now in domestic American politics, in their inter-party and already, as we see, even within the party struggle - to the real "Nord Stream-2", laid "in iron" along the bottom of the cold Baltic Sea , has about the same relation as a bear with a balalaika on the streets of our cities in their comics to a real Russian taiga bear.

Which - the boys, by the way, should not forget - is a big and dangerous beast, so nature decided.

And he will hardly play the balalaika for you.

Even if he becomes full and therefore will remain in a completely lyrical, playful and complacent state of his bearish spirit.

But the chance to survive in a personal, so to speak, meeting some of the inconveniences associated with a landslide attack of diarrhea is very, very high ...

But seriously, Russia has repeatedly stated for a reason: your sanctions are not our question.

For many reasons.

Including the elementary one - effective restrictions on the Nord Stream 2 project are currently even purely technically possible only for Berlin and Vienna, and not at all for Moscow.

And this is well understood in Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, and even Kiev and Washington.

And it would be very funny for Moscow, of course, to see how Berlin, to which Washington "under the terms of the deal" entrusted these issues, would apply these restrictions to its beloved.

And how can this as a result be reflected in the "aggressive policy of the Kremlin" ...

And now a little about the sad.

Of course, all this current beauty, alas, concerns only one specific deal on Nord Stream 2, and this is precisely what Moscow understands very well - it is simply extremely stupid not to understand. The story around the gas pipeline is not strategically over. Simply because it does not exist in this world, like the famous "spherical horse in a vacuum," that is, exclusively by itself. Indeed, even Nord Stream 2 itself does not exist “on its own,” it is just one of the gas pipelines of the gigantic Russian-European gas network that is being completed. This includes the first Nord Stream, the Blue Stream to Turkey, and the Turkish Stream itself. And even the Ukrainian and Polish sections of the still basic, Soviet-German GTS, which, of course, have now lost their former significance, but - there is no doubt - the struggle around which will still continue.

Especially in the context of the projected European strategic energy deficit.

But even this gigantic, not yet formed GTS is only a part of the cyclopean trans-Eurasian transport corridors.

Yes, of course, very important, since we are talking about the transportation of energy, and this is the basis of the current world economy.

But if we speak very much for the future, then the question itself is much broader: in fact, we are talking about “continental” and, therefore, independent from the current “Atlantic centers” transport corridors “East-West” (PRC-RF-EU ) and "North - South" (India - Iran - Russia - Europe).

And if you look at Nord Stream 2 as a project, if you like, a hub for this “new” continental logistics, then here you need to look at things as soberly: the conflict around the project, of course, may subside a little over time.

But given the existential nature of the confrontation, it will most likely exist exactly as long as the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which is just being completed, will exist right now.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.