“…Because of the Europe elite’s growing rejection of horizontal drilling, fracking, and offshore drilling (their prior mantra was to let the Russians do such dirty business in Russia, and then sell Europe the gas and oil cheaply), the EU will now become increasingly dependent on U.S. and Middle-East imported natural gas.
Or it will have to repair Ukraine’s destruction of the Nord Stream II pipeline, and resume business with their hated energy benefactor Vladimir Putin.
The EU’s increasingly asymmetrical and protectionist tariffs result in a $235 billion annual trade surplus with the U.S.—inching up to China’s $295 billion.
Add it all up. And one would think that the EU ministers would welcome polite criticism.
Instead, their contempt for the U.S. is unwise—given they still won’t meet their NATO obligations.
They depend for their security on the U.S. military.
They run massive trade deficits with the U.S. due to one-sidedtariffs. They need American energy. They are shrinking in population, inert in economic growth.
But they will find no cure by increasingly and loudly expressing their bitter anti-Americanism under the convenient fig leaf of hating Trump…”