Here’s the 2018 clip of Donald Trump warning Germany at the United Nations about their reliance on Russian energy. When he said this, the Germans laughed at him.
FLASHBACK: Germans officials laughed at Trump in 2018 when he warned their country would become “totally dependent on Russian energy.”
Germany currently faces an energy crisis for that exact reason.
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 10, 2022
I doubt they are laughing now. Trump was right about their reliance on Russian energy. Germany should have been building nuclear power plants and bolstering their own ability to produce energy for themselves.
Now Trump is saying that Germany may no longer exist as a country over the ongoing self-inflicted energy crisis.
RT:
Germany could soon cease to exist as a country amid the escalating energy crisis, former US president Donald Trump has suggested.
During a rally in Youngstown, Ohio on Saturday, Trump tore into his successor in the White House, taking aim at Biden’s energy policy and the so-called Green New Deal.
The Republican firebrand claimed that, although under his rule the US had become independent in terms of energy and on track to become “totally dominant… bigger than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined,” Joe Biden has since reduced the US to “begging for energy.”
Trump then went on to cite Germany’s sorry state of affairs in this area. According to the ex-president, he warned then-Chancellor Angela Merkel that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was supposed to pump Russian gas to Germany, would make Berlin even more dependent on Russian energy exports.
Trump said he had sent the “white flag of surrender” to Angela Merkel when she refused to ditch the project.
“If you are getting 72% of your energy from Russia, here’s the white flag, because you will be surrendering very quickly,” the former US head of state recounted his own warning to Merkel.
It is a baffling situation no doubt.
Germany went all-in on supporting the Ukraine war and placed sanctions on Russia despite the fact that their economy relied heavily on their energy resources.
Sure, I get that the Germans were probably pressured by the United States to do the sanctions, but how could you go along with this totally insane plan?
Western countries are literally trying to wage war against Russia while simultaneously waging war against their own domestic populations. It is hard to see how any of this can end well.
