ZDA so se s projektom “spraviti Nato v Ukrajino” nadejale izčrpati dva tekmeca – Rusijo in Evropo. Nakar bi se lotili Kitajske. Glede Rusije jim projekt ni uspel. Celo okrepila se je. In se še tesno strateško povezala s Kitajsko. Še več, obe sta proti njej organizirali nov globalni politični moment, ki se manifestira prek BRICS+ in glasovanj v Združenih narodih.

Toda glede Evrope je ZDA popolnoma uspelo. Zvlekle so jo v vojno. EU se je odcepila od ruskega plina in kupuje do 5-krat dražji ameriški plina. EU se je s sankcijami odrezala od 140-milijonskega ruskega trga. In EU je šla po poti ZDA v trgovinsko konfrontacijo s Kitajsko. EU se pospešeno deindustrializira, njena podjetja se bodo izslelila, kar bo ostalo se bo razprodalo za drobiž. Ena Tesla ima višjo tržno kapitalizacijo kot vsa 100+ let stara nemška avtomobilska podjetja skupaj.

Lahko si mislite karkoli hočete o njem, toda ta gospod v spodnjem zapisu ima prav:

We are decent people. We signed long-term contracts with Europe. We always honour our obligations, unlike Europe or the United States.

We worked for decades during the Soviet era, starting in the 1970s, to develop mutually beneficial cooperation in the sphere of gas supply.

It was thanks to affordable Russian gas that energy sectors in Europe, and primarily Germany, as well as their economies as a whole did so well.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview that it was Russia who cut off gas exports to Europe.

Why should an adult person lie? Everyone knows what happened.

Back when Angela Merkel was chancellor, the United States set Germany against launching the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines and for using more expensive – much more expensive – American LNG.

Today, Europe covers its basic energy requirements with liquefied natural gas, including American LNG.

But if anyone would like to buy our gas, we don’t go back on our agreements.

We are neighbours. There are pipelines.

Although three legs of the Nord Stream pipelines have been blown up, there are other pipeline routes, including via Ukraine and Türkiye, across the Back Sea.

If cooperation is mutually beneficial, why shoot yourself in the foot? Let beautiful Europe shoot itself in the foot.

A year ago, I read a statement by French Economics Minister Bruno Le Maire, who said that industries in Europe, including France, paid four times more for electricity than in the United States.

This is exactly what the United States wanted.

They always try to get rid of rivals.

When they saw Russia as a rival, they created an anti-Russia, a Russophobic and Nazi regime in Ukraine and set it against our country.

The EU was a rival for the US too. It is not a rival anymore and never will be, if I correctly interpret development trends in Europe.

Europe is being deindustrialised.

When one of Germany’s best assets – the automobile industry – starts moving production to other countries and Volkswagen shuts down plants and lays off thousands of personnel, it is suggestive.

European bureaucracy is obediently following the course set by the United States.

But more and more EU countries are coming to see that this is not in their interests, but in the interests of their overseas partner.

Vir: Sergej Lavrov, via X