Miami Investor Secretly Trying To Buy Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline US investor Stephen P. Lynch, who has decades of business dealings in Moscow, has reportedly asked US officials for permission to bid on the sabotaged Nord Stream 2 pipeline if it is auctioned off in a Swiss bankruptcy court, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Lynch has discussed with US senators, Treasury officials, and State officials the possibility of American ownership of the sabotaged NS2 pipeline, which runs from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea. “The bottom line is this: This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for American and European control over European energy supply for the rest of the fossil-fuel era,” Lynch told the Journal. Lynch, who lives in South Florida and supports President-elect Donald Trump, sounds like he understands that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is highly probable in Trump’s second term. This suggests that NatGas flows from Russia to Germany could restart once again. Beware of sailboats operated by rogue Ukrainian special forces—Lynch is likely well aware of this risk. New ‘Official’ Nord Stream Sabotage Narrative Says Zelensky’s Top General Went Rogue https://t.co/UVg0tByhqA — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 15, 2024 It is a good question why Lynch has decided to go public about the potential ownership transfer of the 765-mile-long pipeline. WSJ provided more color on the situation: Lynch sought a license from the US Treasury Department in February, according to a letter written by his lawyers at WilmerHale and viewed by The Wall Street Journal. The license would allow him to negotiate for the pipeline with entities currently subject to US sanctions. The letter said there is a hard deadline in January in the Swiss bankruptcy proceeding for Nord Stream 2 to either restructure its debt—which the letter says is unlikely—or face liquidation. Lynch argues that once