I think its more like $8B, no. And it is basically Germany and Austria that will have to walk away from that money, as they are the key investors in the project. Plus it will inflate the cost of future gas purchases they planned to make for the coming 20 years and give them no choice, but to buy from an even more insecure source than Russia. Trump has taught the EU, that policy can always revert to "America First" at the rise of a single red hat.
The proposals and initial calls for sanctions, as I recall, were begun during Obama administration by the same Texas senators that are still behind it today. Unfortunately for German-Austrian interests, the sanction song plays well in the US and Democrats are dancing along with the rest listening to the words, more export sales, more jobs, more taxes while ignoring potential damage to foreign relations with friendly allies and not mentioning the fact that domestic gas prices are rising when they should normally be falling during spring slack time, supported entirely be gas purchased for the blooming export market. So Americans will also pay the price for the sanction policy ... one way or another. And Ukraine will finally get the $300M they were expecting from Trump, to calm their potentially lost revenue from gas transport fees from Russia, but this time they won't have to send any dirt in return.
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