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Recently, Britain set up another stage, and they held a meeting, which, as usual, did not look at how to make life better for its own people or to make relations more integrated among European countries.
In turn, they are still asking the United States for peace, this time with a hat of sin that they have worn on Russia as a gift.
British Prime Minister Sunak said at the meeting that Russia's series of actions are putting Western developed countries closer to the crisis of nuclear escalation, because Russia is about to succeed in the war with Ukraine.
Not only that, but Sunak also accused Russia of curbing them by cutting off gas supplies to Western countries, saying that Russia's methods are low-level and inhumane.
After all, no matter how big the war, the weaponization of immigrants is a manifestation of the absence of martial virtue.
But are Sunak's accusations true? Has Russia really raised the gun of energy security and aimed it at ordinary people in other countries?
The answer, of course, is no, and Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova quickly debunked Britain's false remarks, and after exposing the true face of the other party's lies, she also satirized Britain's methods.
Source: Globe.com, May 14, 2024 – Zakharova slams Sunak's Russia-related allegations: Lies sound so desperate that people feel pitiful
First of all, Russia has accelerated the process of re-entering the war with Ukraine, and it is entirely Ukraine that is trying to attack the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and wants to escalate the "nuclear situation", and only Ukraine is unilateral.
Secondly, Russia did not cause the energy crisis in the West, it was the United Kingdom and other Western countries that took the initiative to cut off the pipeline for the supply of natural gas to Russia, and it was NATO countries that took the initiative to ban energy imports from Russia for fear of retaliation from the United States.
There are traces of these things, and the reason why Britain brought up this topic when the matter was almost over was entirely to frame the matter.
Things go back
In 2022, one of the two Nord Stream pipelines suddenly exploded, leaving Russia with fewer channels to export gas to Western Europe. Subsequently, even the remaining pipeline in Western Europe was blocked.
They claim that EU member states no longer need Russian gas supplies, and they are trying to draw a line with Russia as a means.
The European Commission has publicly stated that while each country uses gas differently, it is confident that it will be able to survive the winter of 2022 without importing gas from Russia, as they still have 80% of their gas storage facilities in stock.
From the perspective of time, since 2011, "Nord Stream 1" has been Russia's main export gas pipeline to Europe, this pipeline has been in use for 11 years, has been in a state of normal maintenance, and was forced to stop operating under the refusal of these EU countries.
This year, along with Germany, which needs Russian gas deliveries the most, has said that they do not need Russian gas this year. After reaching an agreement, these countries in Western Europe immediately jumped out and demanded that the Russian pipeline set a price cap, in an attempt to threaten Russia to reduce prices.
But in the end, Russia made it clear that Russia will not continue to do oil business with these countries that use market means to suppress the Russian gas market. In 2022, the unification of these countries in Western Europe for the non-use of Russian gas has come to an end.
But in the future, Russian LNG is still exported to Western European countries, because the EU is only left with a hard mouth, and if they do not heat in winter, if they do not buy natural gas from the Russian market or use energy, a large number of people will freeze to death.
These countries in Western Europe have indeed done this, no longer using the Nord Stream pipeline to transport Russian gas, and they have switched to loading liquefied natural gas on cruise ships, which has solved the energy crisis and complied with the instructions of the United States.
Attitude reversal
At the beginning of this year, the European Union's Energy Regulatory Cooperation Institute suddenly issued a warning, saying that if the EU countries do not store imported natural gas this year, it will be difficult for the whole of Western Europe to avoid the impact of energy shortages, and they can only import Russia to choose.
In the beginning, these countries united to try to hit Russia's economy by cutting the purchase of Russian gas, preferably to achieve the goal of making Russia lower prices and make peace, but in the end, they were the first to bow their heads.
Countries like Sweden, Finland or the Baltics can push for a full push to stop buying LNG from Russia, but countries like Germany and the UK are completely out of the Russian fossil fuel market. Instead, there was infighting among these countries.
Especially big importers like France, Spain and Belgium, they not only have to use Russian gas, but also make a difference from it. This is because the unused natural gas from these countries is sold to Germany or some countries in Central Europe.
Statistically, the EU is still the world's largest market for digesting LNG, and they are far more dependent on the Russian market than estimated, accounting for 16%. Moreover, this is the situation that the EU has accelerated the transition to renewable energy and has begun to use new energy for heating.
The warning issued by the European Agency for Energy Regulatory Cooperation is based on the fact that they cannot leave the Russian market at the moment. However, the European Parliament suddenly passed a law banning the purchase of LNG-related infrastructure from Russian companies. The European Commission has also set a target of complete derailment from the Russian fossil fuel market by 2027.
Only those involved in energy regulation know how reckless these laws and decisions are, and their proposals for a long-term view have been ignored.
What is certain is that if the EU officials do not allow Russia to continue to fight for energy money in Western Europe, it will not be Russia that will be the first to worry, but Central and Northern Europe, such as Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
It is no exaggeration to say that if they do not import Russian natural gas, they will have to shiver in winter to get heat.
Judging from the above data, Britain suddenly jumped out and put the hat of destroying energy security on Russia's head, probably so that when there is a conflict between these countries in Western Europe because of energy, they can take themselves out first.
Anglo-American pouting?
In fact, no matter which aspect you look at, these countries in Western Europe will never be able to get rid of Russia, because they are geographically close and cooperation is inevitable.
After several years of inconclusive conclusion on the matter of cutting off gas imports from Russia, it is completely possible to conclude that only the countries of Western Europe, which are caught in the middle, will suffer.
Germany, for example!
At the beginning, Germany took the lead in announcing the suspension of the certification process of the "Nord Stream" pipeline and reduced the import of natural gas to Russia, which eventually led to the German people suffering from the increase in natural gas prices, and then there was a bad situation of energy shortage in Germany.
Germany's official approach is a way to fit the sanctions against Russia by these Western countries, but it is the ordinary German people who suffer, so there is political turmoil in Germany all of a sudden.
Germany is the biggest beneficiary of Russia's "Nord Stream" project, they had the most adequate gas supply before that, and thus became the distribution center of natural gas in Western Europe, from which they made a lot of difference, Germany used self-harm to sanction Russia, which is simply 800 wounds to the enemy and 1000 losses to itself.
Why do these countries in Western Europe toss themselves so much, but they can't sanction Russia? The answer lies in the fact that Russia is the biological son of God.
Russia has always been far ahead in the development of heavy industry, for example, Russia's aero engines, even the United States has to buy them from them, and Western Europe, which is poor in energy, takes the initiative to sever diplomatic relations with Russia, which is completely self-defeating.
Because Russia is not only large, but also has a large oil field, in the land of Western Siberia, there is the world's sixth largest oil field, plus Russia is vast and sparsely populated, and the oil produced has always been in oversupply, so a lot of Russian oil fuel is sold to Western Europe.
After all, the accumulation of capital in these countries of Western Europe depends on plunder, not on their own culture, and they do not import natural gas from other countries, so they simply cannot survive the winter.
Germany and Italy, in particular, need Russian gas the most.
If they take the initiative to cut off cooperation with Russia in this regard, then their only import object will be the United States, and the cost of shipping natural gas from the United States will increase significantly, and it will only make the domestic situation turbulent at that time.
But these countries in Western Europe have to do this, because behind them are British and American capital, in terms of heavy industry, Western Europe is dependent on Russia, and in terms of economy, Western Europe is fully tied up by the United States, and they can only be added to the middle to be angry.
After all, the "Nord Stream" project was affected at the beginning, and it was completely Western Europe that miscalculated the extent of the impact on Russia caused by their ban on natural gas imports to Russia, thinking that sanctions in this area would definitely tilt the scales between Russia and Ukraine in favor of the latter, and it was they themselves who suffered first.
Not to mention the negative impact of energy scarcity in Western Europe, the security of their borders alone is difficult to guarantee, because the war has led to the emergence of many refugees, who have flocked to Poland, creating a refugee crisis and exacerbating the chaos in eastern Europe.
And all this is because of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, because of the sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia. However, Russia's economic dependence on foreign countries is far from comparable, and the other party's dependence on itself is high, so all kinds of sanctions will emerge in an endless stream.
For example, at the beginning of this year, Russia's local payment system and financial banks were also affected, because this time Russia was targeted by the United Kingdom and the United States for real enterprises, as well as Chinese companies that have cooperation with Russia.
Britain and the United States are becoming more and more anxious and have more and more means, obviously in order to maintain their hegemonic position in the world, these countries do not allow any country to surpass them, so they will take advantage of the advantages they currently have, and constantly impose sanctions and sanctions.