by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:
Germany was a great manufacturing nation, and Russia is the world’s giant in natural resources; so, the result of these two marrying would be enormous benefit to both. However, America’s billionaires — who control the U.S. empire (of which Germany is a colony) — benefit hugely from preventing that alliance, and so the U.S. Government (which U.S. billionaires control) blew up the Nord Stream pipelines and imposed sanctions punishing any nation that trades with Russia, via not only these anti-Russia sanctions etc., but via these individuals’ control over the U.S. Government and media (to fool voters not only in the U.S. but in its colonies, so that Germans and the subjects in America’s other colonies would view Russia, instead of view America’s billionaires, as being their enemies); so, there hasn’t been any such marriage between Germany and Russia; and, ever since 2022, there has instead been a U.S.-forced divorce (by sanctions etc.) termination of the economic ties that did exist between Germany and Russia.
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Here are excerpts from a comprehensive (though, as is obvious, biased against Russia) article documenting Germany’s, and the EU’s, high dependency upon Russia for its fuel-needs prior to the post-24-February-2022 U.S.-and-colonial sanctions to replace these inexpensive Russian supplies to Europpe, by far costlier supplies mainly from the U.S.:
https://thelondonfinancial.com/economics/emea/gazprom-and-europe-attached-at-the-hip
“Gazprom and Europe: Attached At The Hip?”
28 June 2022, By Advait Lath, Contributor to The London Financial
… [Though] it may be a futile exercise to be able to pinpoint the origins of an impending global crisis, chances are, a clandestine Russian gas behemoth, Gazprom, may have something to do with it.
Russia’s Leviathan Role in the Energy Economy
Russia is the leader in global fossil fuel extraction, refining and production. The vast transcontinental landmass that makes up the country is endowed with surfeit natural resources. It is no surprise that it is one of the world’s top three crude producers, along with Saudi Arabia and the USA. According to the IEA, 45% of Russian federal revenues were based on oil and gas in 2021. While supplying 14% of global oil output (11.3 million BPD as of January 2022), Russia heavily exports a large proportion of its total oil produce (7.8 Million BPD) predominantly to China (20%) and Europe (60%). In comparison, US’ total oil production was 17.6 Million BPD and Saudi Arabia’s 12 Million BPD. Through its extensive crude pipeline capacity, exemplified by the protracted, 5,500 Kilometre long Druzhba pipeline network, Russia transports 0.75 Million BPD of crude to Eastern and Central European refineries. Following an Asia-centric energy policy pivot, Russia launched a 4,740 Kilometres, 1.6 Million BPD pipeline to China and Japan in 2012, as a measure to reduce dependency on European exports.
Behind only the US in terms of natural gas production, Russia is home to the world’s largest gas reserves and is the largest exporter of natural gas in the world (See Fig. 2). In 2021 the country produced 762 bcm of natural gas and exported approximately 210 bcm via pipeline. Around 67% (140 bcm) of that gas was imported by the EU in 2021, with an additional 15 bcm of LNG being imported by the EU from Russia. The aforementioned gas imports from Russia represented 45% of the EU’s gas imports. According to the EU’s energy market report (Q4 2020), Russian pipeline supplies covered 49% of extra-EU net gas imports – nearly double the Norwegian pipeline gas, which was the second most prominent source at 22%. Given the European dependency on Russian gas exports, war in Ukraine has complicated matters on the diplomatic and economic fronts.
