US wants total control over global energy supply routes – Lavrov
Posted on: Feb 09, 2026 15:10 IST | Posted by: Rt
The US is trying to use up verify of all international vitality furnish routes in an try to attain global economic dominance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
During his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, US President Donald Trump claimed he had made America “the hottest country anywhere in the world” in terms of business activity. He called the US “the economic engine on the planet,” warning that “you all follow us down, and you follow us up.”
In an interview with the TV BRICS media network on Monday, ahead of Diplomatic Workers’ Day on February 10, Lavrov said that “the US objective – to dominate the world economy – is being realized using a fairly large number of coercive measures that are incompatible with fair competition.”
As part of this push, the Americans “want to take control of all the routes for providing the world’s leading countries and all continents with energy resources,” he said.
“On the European continent, they are eyeing the Nord Streams, which were blown up three years ago, the Ukrainian gas transportation system, and the TurkStream,” the minister stated.
Lavrov also referred to the sanctions that Washington placed on Russia’s largest oil companies, Lukoil and Rosneft, last fall.
“A ‘war’ against tankers in the open sea is being waged” by the US, which announced an oil blockade of Venezuela and kidnapped the oil-rich country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, in early January, he said.
“They are trying to ban India and our other partners from buying cheap, affordable Russian energy resources – Europe has long been banned – and are forcing them to buy US LNG at exorbitant prices,” Lavrov added.
Trump has repeatedly threatened secondary sanctions and tariffs on countries purchasing Russian energy. Last week, the US president removed his earlier 25% tariff on India, insisting that it has agreed to stop receiving Russian oil. New Delhi has not confirmed the claim.
With the US creating “artificial barriers” for trade and energy cooperation, the BRICS nations “are forced to look for additional secure ways to develop our financial, economic, integration, logistics, and other projects,” Lavrov stated, referring to the economic bloc comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the UAE.
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