The Case of America's Energy Double Standards

In the Orthodox Faith we are often taught to pray for our foes and enemies who are sent to us by God to force us into taking actions that we should be taking but are not. Examples of this is the whole of the sanctions regimes of the West against Russia, over the past 7 years.

Thanks to these sanctions, Russian agriculture is booming, re-industrialization is underway, the further integration of Eurasian Union and alliance with China and rearming of the military with dozens of new technologies entering the civilian market space from this rearming.

So, now we have the American drive to save the Germans and Europeans  at large from evil Russian hydrocarbons. Russian hydrocarbons are enslaving Europe with their low prices and stable delivery and getting in the way of American exports of Freedomcarbons that run anywhere from 150-250% higher in cost and due to that ocean obstacle, can not meet the EU's volume needs.

True, Poland has been buying US gas, but Poland is an impoverished de-industrialized puppet of DC and to boot, the expensive gas is paid for by EU handouts...aka welfare at a national level.

Trump has read Merkel and the German vassals lecture after lecture degenerating them for Nord Stream 2 and for the purchase of evil Russian gas. How can the Germans follow this suicide course when their very sanctity of democracy is at risk? Why should America defend Germany from the mythical pending Russian (Chinese, Klingon, Death Star) invasion when the Germans refuse to pay twice as much for American gas? Of course this gas will make already expensive German goods much more expensive, already impoverished German middle class that much more squeezed, but this is for Freedom! After all, Freedom is NOT free and for some reason the Germans have been bucking the simple fact that they need to pay and pay till it hurts.

Stage Right, steps in Mr. Double Standards.

Then comes the news of US heavy oil purchases from Russia: 9 million barrels as of August, more than in the past 16 years and much more to come before the year's end.

You see, by sanctioning Venezuelan oil exports and stealing Venezuelan government funds in US banks, Mr. Trump and his cohorts have doomed US Gulf of Mexico refineries built to process Venezuelan heavy crude, to bankruptcy. Something, of course, had to be done. So steps in the evil anti-freedom Russian imports and they are cheaper to boot.

And the morality lectures to the Germans? Well, its one thing when dealing with bought and paid for vassals and another when dealing with your own needs.