Trumps was right and media was wrong about reliance on Russian energy

 Jordan Boyd:

Trump Was Right About Europe’s Dangerous Dependence On Russian Energy

 The corporate media wrote off Trump’s warning as a knee-jerk reaction and aversion to green energy — but he was right.

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Former President Donald Trump predicted this energy power struggle in September 2018 in his speech at the U.N. General Assembly.

“Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course. Here in the Western Hemisphere, we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist foreign powers,” Trump boasted.

Trump made similar remarks during a NATO summit earlier that same year. “Germany, as far as I’m concerned, is captive to Russia because it’s getting so much of its energy from Russia,” Trump told NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “We have to talk about the billions and billions of dollars that’s being paid to the country we’re supposed to be protecting you against.”
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Despite the truth in his words, the corporate media wrote off Trump’s warning as a knee-jerk reaction and aversion to green energy. “Fact-checkers” at CNBC claimed, “Trump is exaggerating Germany’s reliance on Russia for energy.”
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Shortly after Trump’s U.N. remarks, the Washington Post published an article headlined, “Trump accused Germany of becoming ‘totally dependent’ on Russian energy at the U.N. The Germans just smirked.”
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Ever since then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel forced her nation to close down all its nuclear power plants after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, Germany has not only “created the highest global electricity prices per household in the world,” as noted by Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi, but it has also significantly increased its dependence on Russia for energy. This energy flow from Russia is especially needful when the nation’s other green power initiatives such as solar and wind fail to meet demand.

Now Germany, Austria, Italy, and the Netherlands are looking “to resurrect old coal plants” to remedy what has become a problem that could stretch into the imminent cold winter. The Germans aren’t smirking anymore.

It was a strategic blunder to shut down their nukes and rely on Russia and they are now paying a price for that blunder.  Trump was clearly more astute than Merkel or the German government.

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