Iran, Qatar and Trump’s New Gas Order
Was Europe’s Gas the Hidden Target?
Freddie Ponton, GLOBAL AFFAIRS via 21WIRE
Ras Laffan burns, Hormuz chokes, and Trump’s envoy tells Europe to sign a $750 billion energy pact or lose its lifeline. Documents show this “shock” was structurally prepared in advance.
Trump did not need to say the quiet part out loud. His ambassador did it for him. As Europe reeled from the war’s shock to global gas markets, Washington warned Brussels that unless the EU passed the Turnberry trade deal intact, it could lose “favourable” access to U.S. liquefied natural gas, the very fuel Europe has come to depend on since the destruction of its old supply order.
IMAGE: Washington’s LNG Ultimatum: A Stark Warning to a Wannabe Dependent Brussels
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