As the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues to deepen, the United States has become the biggest winner behind it. Especially with a loud bang in Europe and the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up, the United States took advantage of this to disrupt Europe, seized the opportunity to occupy the European natural gas market, and made Europe the "target of oppression" by the United States. According to the news, according to relevant statistics, in 2023, the United States will break a new world record for LNG exports, which makes the United States the first place in the world for the first time, and Europe is the largest buyer of the United States. In addition, according to statistics, in 2022, Qatar is the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, and the second largest exporter is Australia.
In 2023, U.S. LNG exports increased by 14.7% from 77.5 million tons in 2022 to 88.9 million tons. Of course, the U.S. has been able to achieve so much because U.S. natural gas plants have fully resumed production, and other plants have seen significant improvements in processing efficiency. I have to say that the United States really took advantage of Europe and made Europe a vassal of the United States.
It is precisely because the United States has taken the lead in increasing sanctions against Russia that Russia will no longer supply natural gas to Europe, prompting European countries to take corresponding measures to further reduce their excessive dependence on Russia. In the process, the United States seized the opportunity to increase the sale of liquefied natural gas to Europe, which brought huge profits to American energy companies. In this regard, some analysts say that the EU's sanctions against Russia have brought losses to European energy companies, but the United States has benefited greatly from them, and now the United States is in a good state, but Europe is in a difficult situation.
For the sake of its own interests, the United States has no regard for the interests of other countries, and now Europe has become the object of the United States' economic harvest, and it can even be said that it is a victim. However, with the United States being pushed to the top spot in LNG exports by European countries, it seems to have brought a big bad news to Russia. As the United States continues to harvest the European economy, it has copied Russia's back path to a certain extent, so that Russia's big trouble is coming.
On the one hand, the United States has made huge profits by increasing the export of liquefied natural gas to Europe, which has a huge impact on Russia, and on the other hand, the United States can take advantage of this to further increase aid to Ukraine and continue the stalemate with Russia. I have to say that the United States has blindly encouraged European countries to increase sanctions against Russia, but it has become the biggest winner, and this is something that Russia must change, otherwise it will always be led by the nose by the United States.
Therefore, it is time for Russia to find a new way to break the deadlock, at least not to let the United States be exclusive in Europe, which is undoubtedly quite dangerous. In addition, it is time for European countries to wake up and not continue to be cheated by the United States, which will only make their situation more dangerous, and it is up to Europe to see what it does.