The leadership of Europe are dangerously rattled by the inevitability that their lies will eventually melt under the blistering truth most people already see.
Queen Ursula’s Last Gambit
Newsweek provides us with the latest example: EU Boss Ursula von der Leyen and her backers are laying the groundwork for war. In a story by Brendan Cole titled “Europe Delivers ‘Final Nail’ Into Putin Gas Empire’s Coffin,” the author starts and ends with a huge lie. From the title, the reader would assume the European Union has come up with yet another genius stroke strategy to destroy those pesky Russians. Then, for those who bother to read the story, the big Vampire spike through Putin’s heart is a sprinter in his finger that he’s already yanked out. The whole story revolves around the useless 18th round of sanctions the EU’s come up with and (get this) moving to keep a blown-up North Sea pipeline closed. Right here is the perfect place for a Google AI assessment of the impacts of poverty on past world wars.
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According to Newsweek, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen says, “Strength is the only language that Russia will understand.” So the bobbing head leader of the new Reich intends to dry up all of Europe’s energy to show Russia who’s boss. Russia still supplies almost 15% of the EU’s natural gas and about 6% of the crude oil the bloc gets. This does not include Russian oil and gas resold by third parties. However, the dangers Frau von der Leyen’s new sanctions are fraught with have nothing to do with Russia’s suffering. The entire scheme is designed to put pressure on Europeans, making war the only apparent choice. Allow me to explain.
The EU is already in significant trouble when it comes to energy. Since 2022, people in the EU have concerns about future energy security, especially with gas reserves being depleted and the potential for further supply cuts. And now Newsweek and other mainstream Western media report von der Leyen will lower the existing G7 Russian oil price cap from $60 to $45. The concern for EU citizens is what this will do to the overall crude oil market. Crude oil is now selling for about $66 per barrel, but the U.S. and other major suppliers are already mulling a cutback in production. Experts say U.S. crude production is set to decline on low oil prices, and when supply goes down…
Ladas On the Autobahn
Examining the EU’s primary oil suppliers, we find that the United States is now the largest, followed by Norway and Kazakhstan. So, we have the U.S. ready to move to boost oil prices, and Norway is pumping its supplies dry as fast as it can. All that remains to return Europe to the Stone Age is for Vladimir Putin to call Kazakhstan. Few reading this report will know that the main export route for Kazakhstan crude is through Russia. Oops, Ursula! Or, hurrah! Your plan to get Europeans to back a new invasion of Russia is underway. Soon, Germans will be driving Ladas.
In 2024, the Euro area experienced a growth of 0.8%. As for Russia, the growth rate there is somewhere between 3% and 0.8%, depending on whose report you are reading. The gloom and doom Western financial media have predicted for Russia have never proven true. In the East and South of Europe, low growth rates are not the killers; inflation is. The citizens of Montenegro, Romania, Bulgaria, or Greece simply cannot buy as much bread with the same Euro. I am reminded of something Hermann Goering, Hitler’s closest advisor and head of the Nazi Luftwaffe, once said:
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
Meanwhile, as Ursula and Co. work to make peasants out of Europeans, Russia’s Gazprom has somehow managed to reap mega-profitability. You read that correctly. This report from (amazingly) The Carnegie Endowment tells of the Russian energy giant doubling profits from 2023 to 2024. Oh, and let’s not forget that the EU ranks 15th in terms of Russian crude oil exports. Turkey gets the most, followed by China, Brazil, Singapore, India, Malaysia, and others (January 2025).
Taking a final look at the EU’s Operation Plowshares into Swords sanctions policy, the recent conflicts between Pakistan and India threaten a $10 per barrel oil price hike. So, where do you think the $45 dollar per barrel EU-bound oil will go? Even Germans will mark Winter 2025/2026 as the worst year ever for staying warm.
Good job, Newsweek, for reminding the world the lunatics run Europe.
Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books
