Nowadays, there are some awakened "elites" in Europe. They have discovered an embarrassing situation, that is, The United States seems to use the Russian-Ukrainian conflict to bring Europe into an "energy trap" and wants to dominate Europe's economy.
Antecedent: Blindly following the United States to sanction Russia's energy exports, causing itself to fall into the energy crisis .
After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States and Western Europe allies came together to sanction and suppress Russia.
Since Russia's economy mainly relies on energy exports, the most effective way to suppress and impose sanctions on it is to refuse to import Russian energy . This will suppress Russia's economy and achieve its own sanctions.
However, Western European countries seem to have hit the nail on the head this time.
Currently, Russia has antibodies to the economic sanctions of the United States and Western European countries. It can be said that 's current sanctions do not work for Russia .
On the contrary, Western European countries eventually suffered from bad consequences due to their energy exports to Russia.
can be said to be shooting oneself in the foot.
(Schematic diagram of the natural gas pipeline of Beixi No. 1 and Beixi No. 2 natural gas pipelines)
In fact, many Western European countries are very scarce, and relies heavily on Russia's energy output. Russia and Europe each take their needs, Western European countries use cheap energy, and Russia also makes profits.
However, since Western European countries blindly followed the US sanctions on Russia, they have difficulty using cheap energy and have been trapped in an energy crisis .
As the conflict continues to intensify and their more rounds of sanctions have led to a more serious energy crisis.
Among them, natural gas resources, known for its "clean energy", are the most scarce.
International Energy Agency once said: Europe will face the "everything" shortage of natural gas this winter.
In fact, when Western European countries sanctioned Russian energy, they thought about importing natural gas from other countries to replace Russian energy, but the results were minimal.
With the bombing of the "Northern Stream" pipeline, the natural gas supply that was originally provided by Russia that could meet the quarter of the EU countries was almost cut off.
(Natural gas surged out of the sea after the Nord Stream pipeline was bombed)
This undoubtedly made the energy crisis in Western European countries worsen.
In fact, Western European countries have not seen a situation clearly, and the United States has almost any energy dependence on Russia.
. Many EU countries rely very strongly on Russia's energy, and sanctioning Russia is completely killing 800 enemies and hurting one thousand of them.
Judging from the current situation, there is no other solution for Western European countries such as Germany and France except for the choice of importing liquefied natural gas from the United States.
To put it bluntly, Western European countries were sold by the United States and were still helping the United States count their money.
Consequences: The United States makes a lot of money in the energy crisis, and EU countries can only bear the pain of cutting their losses to buy high-priced liquefied natural gas in the United States.
(LNG ship )
The United States fully demonstrated the "interest-oriented" capitalist countries in the European energy crisis. How could they sell cheap liquefied natural gas to Western European countries?
Otherwise, how do they make high profits in ?
According to media reports, an LNG ship transported a full ship of liquefied natural gas from the United States to European countries, and the net profit earned must reach .15 billion .
The price of US liquefied natural gas is so expensive that the current French president Macron once publicly complained: their natural gas is too expensive and it will cost you four times the price before you can buy it. At the same time, it also stated that this is not the "true meaning of friendship".
(Macron)
However, Macron seems to have forgotten that the United States is a capitalist country, whatever interests are the most important.
Let’s take September this year as an example. The total amount of liquefied natural gas exported to foreign countries by the United States is about 6.3 million tons, and more than half of the liquefied natural gas is transported to Western European countries.
You can imagine how much money the United States has made from it?
Faced with this situation, the French Minister of Finance Bruno Lemayer can be regarded as one of the awakened European "elites".
He found that Europe is increasingly dependent on the US liquefied natural gas, which will allow The United States to use energy to "rule" Europe , and Europe does not need to be "ruled" by the United States.
At the same time, he also accused the United States of energy shortages and rising natural gas prices due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
In fact, EU sanctions Russia's energy exports, which is equivalent to bringing itself into an "energy trap".
German vice prime minister also complained that the U.S. exported liquefied natural gas to Germany is expensive, and accused the U.S. of taking the opportunity to make a fortune in war.
If the situation is not improved, the consequences will be very serious in the future.
The energy crisis currently faced by Western European countries has even threatened economic development.
German Vice Prime Minister once said that due to Germany's purchase of high-priced natural gas from other countries, its domestic economic losses this year are about 260 billion euros .
If this situation does not improve next year, the economic loss will reach 100 billion euros .
Germany's central bank also made a prediction that due to the impact of the energy crisis, its domestic economy may decline in the fourth quarter of 2022 or the first quarter of 2023.
This is definitely not good news for the entire EU.
After all, Germany is the fourth largest economic power in the world and the largest economy in the EU. The rise and fall of its economy has a great impact on the overall economic of the EU.
However, the impact of the energy crisis on the EU goes beyond that.
Due to the high price of energy resources, many manufacturing industries in the EU face risks such as suspension of production.
In addition, the current energy prices in the United States are much cheaper than those in the European Union, which attracts many countries to actively open factories in the United States.
Under the suppression of these two situations, EU countries will also face the huge risk of " de-industrialization ".
In fact, EU countries did not gain any big advantage in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but were fooled, resulting in the United States almost controlling their channels for importing energy.
Western European countries found that they are currently blindly following the United States' sanctions and suppression of Russia, while being "cut off" by the United States, and economic development also depends on the United States' expression.
In fact, the United States is the biggest winner in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Not only did create a strong enemy for Russia, but it also weakened the economies of Western European countries, and also developed energy dependence on it, and may also dominate Europe in the future.
The so-called conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Western Europe fell, and the United States was full.
Let's take a look at the comments from netizens on them:
"At present, the United States is already in high debt. The EU does not give the United States money, who will get the money?"
"Why does the United States support the Russian-Ukraine war? The essence is to flee the wool from Europe. People on earth know it, but the EU is the only one who is an ostrich!"
What do you think Western European countries will do?
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