Europe accuses US of profiting from war 4 years ago
The U.S. wanted a huge piece of the oil action in Russia in 2003 and got rejected:
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/10/03/russia.yukos/
It seems to me that the U.S. wanted to be "extremely reliant on known bad actor Russia". Is Nord Stream perhaps sour grapes for the U.S.?