Talk here in Europe has recently turned to energy rationing. The pretext? National security, or the need to stick it to Russian President Vladimir Putin. It’s absolute nonsense and a “crisis” entirely of their own making — contrary to what they want us to believe.
“Putin’s new gas squeeze condemns Europe to recession and a hard winter of rationing,” according to a recent CNBC headline. Except that Putin isn’t “condemning” Europe to anything. It’s Europe’s own self-imposed gas crunch that has it looking down the barrel at what various economists are now predicting to be a recession.
Blaming this fact on Russia is a cop-out that only serves to deflect blame for the grotesquely incompetent and utterly suicidal policies of our Western leaders. It lets them off the hook and allows them to avoid accountability.
U.S. President Joe Biden has used the same rhetoric, referring in June to the U.S. cost of living spike to “Putin’s tax on both food and gas.” Biden doesn’t seem to be fooling anyone, though. A Rasmussen poll from June found that just 11 percent of Americans bought his Putin excuse, while 52 percent blamed Biden and his own policies.
Regardless of what anyone might think of Putin or the conflict in Ukraine, it’s outrageous that our leaders are attempting to use both as an excuse for imposing — and then doubling-down — on their own horrific policies, which ultimately just impose greater control and suffering on their own citizens. The evidence that their actions harm their own people far outweighs any such proof of harm to Russia, as some opposition figures have recently pointed out.
“Europe is going to face a blackout, notably on the question of Russian gas imports. These sanctions are simply useless. All they do is make Europeans suffer. And that, incidentally, includes French people,”
France’s main parliamentary opposition party leader, Marine Le Pen, said last week. “You’d need a huge dose of bad faith not to realize that, contrary to the inflated claims of our government, the Russian economy is not on its knees. They are not on the brink of bankruptcy.”
Le Pen is right to emphasize that it was Europe that foolishly turned off the gas tap on its own citizens and what’s left of its manufacturing base. Proof lies in the fact that it could still turn on the gas if it wanted to and solve all of its problems.
While there’s currently an ongoing debate between Russian and Western officials over the legitimacy of maintenance issues cited by Moscow for the shutting down the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, there’s nonetheless a whole other alternative pipeline (Nord Stream 2) just sitting there and available for use by Europe. But that would require the European Union to lift anti-Russian sanctions against its own gas supply. It would also require the EU to violate U.S. sanctions imposed on Nord Stream 2. You’d think that it could get a pass from Washington on that if the EU explained that it was a matter of avoiding the implosion of its own economy.
But no such expression of interest is forthcoming from Brussels. European leaders are therefore deliberately choosing to impose ideologically-driven rationing on their own citizens and economy — much like they chose to impose arguably useless, ineffective COVID-related mandates, which have since resulted in major disruptions to staffing that are currently wreaking havoc across various sectors from travel and leisure to health care. About the only lasting “value” that jab mandates produced was the bloc-wide digital “health certificate” QR code system — ultimately a win for state-sponsored big data surveillance.
Before Putin was targeted as enemy number one, our powers that be considered that you and I were the threat. Or rather, our consumption in light of “climate change,” or else our risk of passing on COVID-19. All of which conveniently required greater central government planning.
Speaking of control, the EU recently issued a bloc-wide top-down directive for member states to cut gas use by 15 percent. So how does that trickle down? Well, folks seeking respite from the 40C (104F) heat in Madrid, for example, have to now sweat it out in movie theaters which are mandated by government decree to prohibit the air conditioning from being set lower than 27C (81F). The same holds true for any other commercial or public building across Spain, and Italy has imposed similar restrictions.
The law isn’t mandatory for private households — yet. Although it’s not unimaginable that they could eventually try to pry our air conditioning from our cold hands.
During the COVID crisis, then French health minister Olivier Véran said that there would be no jab mandates. But then France — and much of the EU straitjacket— ended up conditioning everything from employment to sports participation and travel on a digital QR code jab pass. The same Véran is now the French government’s spokesman, reassuring citizens that there will be no forced reduction of energy imposed on households despite the pending shortages.
This hasn’t reassured some citizens who are concerned that the remotely controlled gas and electricity counters installed in homes across France over the past few years could easily be subject to greater state control under the pretext of a crisis.
Before the conflict in Ukraine came along, Western officials were regularly framing “climate change” as a national security issue, and evoking it as a pretext to ramp up taxes and control. It seems that there’s no crisis that they won’t exploit, all while deflecting blame for the blow back onto anyone or anything else but themselves.
Rachel Marsden is a columnist, political strategist and host of independently produced talk shows in French and English.
Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the book, Kevin MacDonald’s Metaphysical Failure: A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Critique of Evolutionary Psychology, Sociobiology, and Identity Politics. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.
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“…the grotesquely incompetent and utterly suicidal policies of our Western leaders…”
Actually, I was under the impression that it is called the “great reset”. Depopulation works in many ways. Since more than 7 billion people are considered “useless eaters”, they can be exterminated with impunity. Especially for Germany Incan see people rather freeze to death than taking things into their own hands an bringing this illegal fascistic regime to an long overdue end.
From topwar site:
The municipality of Leipzig supported the screening of Oliver Stone’s film “Ukraine on Fire” at the film festival, which caused the anger of Ukrainian “activists”.
The German press writes that the film “Ukraine on Fire” made a great impression on the audience. This suggests, among other things, that Western society is still beginning to receive (albeit bit by bit) the truth regarding what generally causes the current conflict on the territory of Ukraine, who is the main sponsor of the coming to power of a destructive regime that plunged the country into chaos, sending it to the last place in terms of living standards on the European continent.
lets see if sgt schultz is a nationalist… i am beginning to get mixed scenario’s here… called a trible cross !
if the major industries take a major declared holiday – then mega riots..
rioters bussed to the americano bases…
occupert ends.. ??
The key to all of this is… “I am a Zionist. You don’t have to be [an Ashkenazi] to be a Zionist,” current Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden, said in April 2007. He keeps saying this over and over, right up to his visit to Israel in 2022. This is why he chose Antony Blinken to be Secretary of State and Victoria “f-ck the EU” Nuland as his side kick. This is why we are headed for WWIII with the Ruskies over Ukraine. 50 million US so-called Christian Zionists are all for it.
I take it then…that all 50 million US Christian Zionists were in favor of 9-11 and when the US Government aids and abets the next false flag they will be oh so glad to be sacrificed (relatives and kids included) in the pseudo rapture. This is what really gets me…who can talk ‘freedom and flag waving’ knowing full well that our leadership did what it did in murdering thousands on 9-11? We are just sitting ducks for the next one they’ll pull in order to meet the Zionist demand. If that’s freedom to anyone we have to agree to disagree. We are only free to embrace an imposed oblivious state of mind…or else. That’s called a ‘fait accompli’, not freedom.
If the temperature in the dwelling is made 2 degrees lower than on the street, then by opening the windows and doors the room can be heated from the outside.
Let the Europeans stand in a corner at home and warm themselves, it’s 90 degrees there 😁.
The heat in Europe is working for Putin, because it is necessary to spend more electricity on air conditioning. And also the drought. Frost in Europe works for Putin, because it is necessary to spend gas on heating the premises. The rotation of the Earth around the Sun works for Putin, because it provides a change of seasons. The night in Europe works for Putin because it is necessary to turn on the lighting at night. The rotation of the Earth around its axis works for Putin, because night comes as a consequence of it.
My president has agreed to attend the G20 summit. There we will look at the behavior of European incompetent politicians. Especially on Fox Trails from the UK.
Liz Truss from GB (not Fox Trails)
Nice Andrew. And here in the USA, the only reason we won’t be freezing our asses off this winter is because the utility middlemen still have enough “juice” to keep the gas flowing. In spite of idiot Biden’s attempts to exchange that for wind and sunlight 10 years from now. What a dottering old fool he is.
Good points, Sir. Note how none of those things work for any US president. Mr. Biden may not have to be concerned regarding the cold/frost part…being deceased from natural causes might be a reality by then.
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