From Strib - an AP feed, mid-item explanation that we sanction Russia over invading Ukraine, to the hilt, kind of:
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has dismissed calls to boycott Russian energy supplies, saying it would cause significant damage to his country's economy. Scholz is facing pressure from environmental activists to quickly wean Germany off Russian energy, but he said the process will have to be gradual.
"To do so from one day to the next would mean plunging our country and all of Europe into recession," Scholz said Wednesday.
Ursula von der Leyen, head of the European Union's executive arm, said before Biden's visit that she wanted to discuss the possibility of securing extra deliveries of liquefied natural gas from the United States for the 27-nation bloc "for the next two winters."
The EU imports 90% of the natural gas used to generate electricity, heat homes and supply industry, with Russia supplying almost 40% of EU gas and a quarter of its oil. The bloc is looking at ways to reduce its dependence on Russian gas by diversifying suppliers.
The U.S. is looking for ways to "surge" LNG supplies to Europe to help, said Jake Sullivan, Biden's national security adviser.
Smedley Butler text online, "War Is a Racket."
Quick context, after the first pan-European war in the early decades of the Twentieth Century. (A/k/a WW I, where the Ottoman Empire even owned a share.)
Goes around, comes around, and learn from history or - of all things - relive it.
Yes death and destruction are simply awful; but about the LNG contracts . . .
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Syrian War - nasty choice, Obama went in - and with all those unwelcome Muslim refugees it yielded, unlike the welcome white Ukranians. Related?
Multi-dimensional?
All I know is what I can read on the Internet.
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