This what the war has been about all along. They could buy oil and gas from Southwest Asia and North Africa but they hate Arabs and Muslims even more than they hate Russians.
As I called it here, the goal is clearly to force Europe to become a captive energy market for the US. China used to be a big customer for American LNG, but with Power of Siberia 2 now having been approved, that market will dry up. The US will force Europeans to buy their surplus instead.
https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/europes-new-gilded-cage
And Europeans just sleep walked right into this trap.
It’s because they painted themselves into a corner by burning bridges with Russia. At this point, they’re in a situation where they have hostile Russia on their border, and they lack a credible military of their own. This situation gives the US a huge amount of leverage over Europe.
Their bridges with Russia can be rebuilt.
But even if that’s a bridge too far, they could embrace Chinese solar and batteries and electrification. A large up front investment for the ability to generate their own power and cut fossil fuel dependency. China would happily work with them even if they still refuse reproachment with Russia.
Instead they’re just idly waiting for the US to complete their colonization.
For sure, working with China would’ve been hands down the sanest thing to do, alas racism.
More like a reconquista than a colonization
I think you’re mistaken here. Russia burned the bridges by invading a European sovereign country. This is not complicated.
It’s incredible how people continue to peddle this infantile version of how the conflict started.
Are you saying that Russia is not occupying parts of Ukraine? That the war would not end if Russia retracted their armies and left Ukraine alone?
Honestly, I don’t even know why I’m trying to reason with a troll…
No, I’m saying that history didn’t start on February of 2022. Here’s a perspective from an actual adult with a fully developed brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
It’s adorable that you consider what you’re doing here to be reasoning.
Thank you for this tip, I’ll try to watch it when I get the time.
So you agree that Russia can end this war by pulling back their armies from Ukraine territory. That would be a first step for Russia to start mending the bridges that they burned with Europe.
This is a proxy war between Russia and NATO, where the west is cynically using Ukrainians to fight for them. This was admitted by no lesser person than the US secretary of state. Furthermore, Russia doesn’t need Europe, they were able to redirect their economy towards the global south, and it’s becoming clear that Europe’s obsession with defeating Russia is self destructive. Europeans allowed themselves to be cut off from cheap energy from Russia and Chinese markets that underpinned European prosperity. At the same time, the US is now preying in weakened Europe forcing it into unequal trade deals and to buy its expensive LNG.
