Only logical that Putin wouldn’t invade under Russian Stooge Trump
What is really funny is that the fervent followers of Biden also believe the "green energy investments" would have stopped Putin from achieving dominance in the region, when it objectively achieved the exact opposite. Gas prices are at a all time high along with demand. Germany gutted all the infrastructure for nuclear plants with no backups leading to a dire dependence on immediate energy.
It wouldn't surprise me at all that Russia has been planting seeds of misinformation about green energy to achieve the present day high prices and global dominance on Russian natural gas. And NATO knows this is all about Russian energy. Look at this article, Putin has NATO AND Biden by the balls.
There’s an elephant in the room. Since Thursday, when Russian troops stormed into Ukraine, the U.S., the E.U., and their allies have announced a raft of sanctions designed to hurt Russia’s economy and financial system, and make President Vladimir Putin reconsider his invasion. But measures targeting exports of oil and gas, which provided 36% of Russia’s national budget last year, are conspicuously absent from the public discussion.
Some Ukrainians are not happy. “We need real sanctions, not just some problems for Putin’s friends,” Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Goncharenco said in a video posted to Twitter Thursday. “We need an embargo on Russian gas and oil because every barrel of Russian oil and every cubic meter of Russian gas is now full of the blood of Ukrainians.“
E.U. Commission president Ursula Von Der Leyen says the bloc will target Russia’s energy sector through an export ban preventing European companies sending technology to Russia that it needs to upgrade its refineries. And the U.S. Department of the Treasury says it will heavily restrict the ability of Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy conglomerate, to raise money for projects from the U.S. market. But so far, the call for restrictions or an embargo on Russian oil and gas, echoed Friday by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, feels far outside the realm of possibility.
It’s not hard to understand why. Western energy embargoes would be painful for Putin, but he wouldn’t feel their full effects for several years. In the short term—which is what counts during an invasion—Europe and the rest of the world have more to lose.
On average, the E.U. relies on Russia for 35% of its natural gas—though some countries are more dependent than others. Tensions over Ukraine have already worsened a European fuel-price crisis that began last year due to shortages as the world emerged from the pandemic. Right now in Europe, a megawatt hour of natural gas costs nearly ten times what it did a year ago.
Sanctions on Russian energy would push prices higher globally, and fears that they might be introduced have already had an impact: on Thursday natural gas prices spiked 51% in Europe, and crude oil—of which Russia is the world’s second largest exporter—hit a seven-year high of $105 a barrel. When those sanctions didn’t materialize later in the day, prices fell a little, and Russian gas flows through Ukraine to Europe actually increased.
