For Russia with love...
Real Clear Energy (2/1/22) article: "Europe would be in a stronger position today to resist Russian aggression if it could draw from more diversified energy sources. Unfortunately, President Biden has made that process more difficult by withdrawing support from the EastMed pipeline, which would transport natural gas from Israel to Europe. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had supported the project under President Trump. But Biden’s State Department announced in January that it was reversing this position...In retrospect, all the talk of 'Russian collusion' that could not be substantiated against Trump, can certainly be applied to Team Biden at least where energy policy is concerned. 'All the signs from the Biden administration are we don’t support oil and gas production for western countries and that the only place you can do it is in Russia,' Dan Kish, a senior fellow with IER, said. 'He’s canceled Keystone and is raising taxes and fees on existing gas production to make it harder to do in the U.S. I’ve never seen Biden do anything positive on energy.' What exactly was the rationale for Biden to undercut the EastMed pipeline at Europe’s expense? Apparently, he wants to speed up the transition to so called renewable energy sources. But once again, Biden’s opposition to natural gas pipelines makes no sense as a matter of policy – even by his own environmental metrics."...Although the EastMed pipeline is not set to be operational until 2025, a decision to press ahead with the project would have significant economic and geopolitical benefits, Kish, the IER senior fellow, observed. “When you have a project like this it sends all the right signals and lets the other side know you mean business,” he said. “But when you stop the project, it sends a message to markets and to power players like Putin. It says that we are making ourselves defenseless and he’s looking to take advantage of the situation.”
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"Americans and Europeans have become so focused on appeasing climate activists that they’ve forgotten the importance of power — in the sense of geopolitics, not kilowatts. While the West was debating ways to reduce emissions at the UN’s COP26 summit in Glasgow, Russia and China didn’t even bother to show up. While we fall over ourselves to acclaim Greta Thunberg, Russia builds strategic gas pipelines and China builds coal-burning power stations."
– Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Specator
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