For European people, this winter will be very difficult! With the support of certain factors, Europe launched a series of actions against Russia, which directly made Russia show its "knife" - closing Nord Stream One! This made EU completely stunned. I originally hoped that the big brother could help, but unexpectedly, the United States took advantage of the situation and made a big profit by increasing the price of natural gas !
According to media reports, recently, Russia said that a failure in Nord Stream 1 cannot continue to supply natural gas to Europe and will be closed indefinitely until the failure is lifted! As soon as this news came out, it immediately attracted global attention and even became a hot search in China.
You should know that among Western countries, Europe’s most shortage of natural gas is natural gas. Although the United States can provide it, it can only be transported by ships due to geographical location restrictions. Therefore, the natural gas in Europe comes from Russia’s Nord Stream 1. It can be imagined that once Nord Stream 1 is stopped, Europe will experience a major problem of a large amount of natural gas shortage.
In fact, Russia's move this time was not without a reason, but because of the EU's repeated provocations. Originally, the EU did not play a good role in the conflict with Ukraine , but Russia ignored it at that time. After that, the EU did not do things in a low-key manner, but it continued to challenge Russia's bottom line, and there was no one else.
September 2, at the meeting of the Finance Ministers of the G7, the EU decided to set a price limit on Russian oil. European Commission Chairman also took the opportunity to propose "limit the price of Russian natural gas"! These two things made Russia completely popular, and directly turned the three-day deadline of Beixi No. 1 into an indefinite period!
Although Europe began to increase its natural gas storage after the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, as far as the current situation is concerned, the storage volume is far from enough to use. It seems that Europe will be very difficult this winter! Interestingly, in order to ensure the domestic natural gas supply, Europe began to purchase natural gas globally, but lost Russia, a major supply country, and other countries were in short supply, and European countries were also in a panic.
At this time, Europe had to put its hope on the big brother America, but the United States never disappointed. Amid the EU's eager expectations, the United States immediately agreed to provide a large amount of natural gas. But European countries are also having a headache when they see the high prices. Originally, shipping natural gas was much more expensive than Russian pipeline transportation, but now it is really unbearable to raise the price.
The final situation is imminent, and Europe has to swallow this bitter fruit with tears in its eyes. If I had known this would be the ending, the EU would have never provoked Russia! But now the situation is complete and it is too late to turn back. We still have to think carefully about the subsequent domestic natural gas price increase.
I have to say that this European game was wrong! But the United States is even more outrageously wrong! Although the EU and the United States are close in politics, they do not have an advantage in geographical location. Russia has unique natural gas and oil resources, which is in short supply between the United States and Europe. The United States can seize it through the Middle East War , but Europe does not have this strength. It is tightly restrained by Russia on the issue of natural gas. Once Russia takes action on natural gas, Europe will have no power to resist.
Just like the current situation, even if Europe barely survives this winter, the subsequent livelihood problems and financial problems will be a headache, let alone will there be no winter in the future? So it is inevitable to bow to Russia, it is just a matter of time. Therefore, the United States' move to restrain Russia through Europe is completely unrealistic, and Europe is the one that is restrained.
Of course, if Germany is forced to bypass the United States and directly open Nord Stream 2 with Russia, the relationship between Europe and Russia will be closer, and Europe will also make trade-offs in future political choices, so the United States has made the wrong move.
