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From WUWT

Why is continued Russian involvement in German energy supplies important?

Germany is in a heap of trouble with its budget, the hundreds of billions of Euros Germany spent and continues to spend on its failed Energiewende green energy project have thrown government finances into chaos, and led to unpopular public deficits. Germany’s incompetent green politicians are terrified that any rise in economic hardship or further public outrage at the nation’s precarious finances will spur the rise of the populist right wing Alternative for Germany movement.

It wouldn’t take much of a disruption to German energy supplies to topple this fragile budget situation. Even a few delayed shipments of that thinly disguised Russian gas could trigger another politically damaging German energy price spike, and push German public finances even deeper into the red.

There is a missing link in this chain, I don’t have evidence that Moscow recently stepped up pressure on Germany to stop supporting Ukraine. But the timing of this decision to stop supporting Ukraine, right in the middle of a German budget crisis, within days of Ukraine’s surprise salient into Russian territory, seems intriguing.

Germany’s withdrawal of open ended support for Ukraine creates a huge risk for the United States. If the rest of Europe follows Germany’s lead, and also starts pulling support for Ukraine, the Biden / Harris administration will be left with the embarrassment of supporting a war on another continent which even Ukraine’s neighbours don’t care about. The “hope that another country will jump into the breach” – I wonder which other country German officials have in mind? With the tattered veil of European military support ripped aside, the Ukraine war would openly become a direct military confrontation between the USA’s Ukrainian proxy and the nuclear armed Russian Federation.

If I am right, Europe is truly paying the price for their failed experiment in green energy. European governments are still so beholden to Russian energy supplies, they have to dance like performing bears whenever Moscow cracks its whip, even as Russia eats one of their neighbours. Yet with their very political survival being threatened, most European politicians still haven’t found the political courage to change course and admit their green energy push was a mistake.