Europe is facing an unprecedented energy crisis, the reason is that EU countries, under the instigation of the United States, have imposed unreasonable sanctions on Russia, trying to "limit Russian oil" and "limit Russian gas**" As a result, Russia is unwilling to endure Europe's rudeness, and directly announced the indefinite closure of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline that transports natural gas to Europe, on the grounds that "there is a risk of oil leakage in the pipeline, which may cause **" As a result, Europe was completely "cut off" by Russia had to face a cold and long winter.
Russia's shutdown of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline has sharply reduced the volume of natural gas sent to Europe, which has plunged Europe into its worst energy dilemma since the war. However, Germany, the leader of the European Union, is still pretending not to care, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz even claimed that Germany is ready to deal with Russia's gas shutdown and is not afraid of the Russian threat. However, his remarks were quickly refuted by people in Germany, who questioned Germany's energy security and economic prospects.
For example, the president of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities Ransberg pointed out that Germany is in the midst of an extremely severe energy crisis, due to the lack of sufficient energy**, many German households can only use electric stoves for heating, but not gas stoves, which is not only ineffective, but can also lead to overloading the power grid and triggering large-scale power outages.
He also said that if such a situation occurred in winter, the consequences would be catastrophic, and he believed that Germany should face reality and admit that it was not prepared.
In addition, the president of the German Institute for Economic Research, Ratscher, said mercilessly that Germany has fallen into a recession due to the lack of natural gas and other energy sources, and this recession is irreversible, and even after two years, Germany may not recover.
It can be seen from this that people from all walks of life in Germany do not agree with the German Chancellor's statement, and they all clearly see that in the process of following the United States to put pressure on Russia, Germany has harmed its own interests, lost the cheap natural gas and oil provided by Russia, and brought great difficulties to its own enterprises and people, which is a serious challenge.
Therefore, the words of the German Chancellor are not credible, and this has been confirmed by the leaders of other European countries.
According to the Observer Network, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban bluntly said that now Europe has used up its own energy, and in all continents in the world, only Europeans make their lives more difficult, and people in other places are constantly improving, while Europeans are constantly regressing, why is this?The reason is simple, most European countries have succumbed to the United States and followed the United States in imposing severe sanctions against Russia, which turned out to be self-defeating, and "there are not many sober-minded Europeans."
He also said that Prime Minister Orban's words are very reasonable, if Europe does not obey the command of the United States, exert maximum pressure on Russia, turn the conflict between Russia and Ukraine into a confrontation between Russia and Europe, and increase the burden on itself, then Europe can completely remain neutral and live more comfortably, because in order to win Europe, Russia is willing to make concessions.
However, it is a pity that since Merkel**, there have been no real politicians in Europe, including Macron, so now Europe has become a lackey of the United States and a political tool of the United States. From this point of view, Russian-European relations cannot be improved in the short term, and Europeans are almost doomed to a cold and painful winter, and freezing to death may become the norm.