{"id":1629715,"date":"2022-09-01T13:05:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629715"},"modified":"2022-09-01T13:05:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:05:32","slug":"germans-laughed-at-trumps-russia-warning-but-it-proved-prophetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/germans-laughed-at-trumps-russia-warning-but-it-proved-prophetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans Laughed at Trump\u2019s Russia Warning, But It Proved Prophetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgermans-laughed-at-trumps-russia-warning-but-it-proved-prophetic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629715&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>News Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In September 2018, the German delegation to the United Nations General Assembly snickered when then-President Donald Trump said their country would \u201cbecome totally dependent on Russian energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some observers gleefully joined in.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said during the same speech: \u201cReliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-germany\">Germany<\/a> and the United States disagreed strongly about the construction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-russia\">Russia<\/a>\u2019s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Germany maintained that the project was strictly commercial, while American officials worried Russia could use a new pipeline to place geopolitical pressure on Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Now, four years later, the clip has resurfaced on social media.<\/p>\n<p>To <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrugesGroup\/status\/1564681917718532097\">many<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrew_lilico\/status\/1564386669247320070\">who<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanSchachtel\/status\/1564381200797532160\">heard<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickForVA\/status\/1564308588868280322\">it<\/a> again, Trump\u2019s warning sounds prophetic.<\/p>\n<p> Driving Up Energy Prices <\/p>\n<p>Sanctions on Russia after it invaded Ukraine have helped drive up the price of energy around the world, inflicting some of the greatest pain on Germany. Before the war broke out, over half of the country\u2019s natural gas came from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>German energy prices exceeded $1,000 per megawatt-hour for the first time on Aug. 29, following months of rising prices for households and businesses alike.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-August, the German government introduced a new natural gas tax\u20142.4 cents per kilowatt hour\u2014on consumers to go into effect in October as temperatures fall and demand rises with the approach of winter.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Olof Scholz also announced plans to decrease the value-added tax on natural gas to 7 percent from 19 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Nord Stream 2 was effectively canceled following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Gazprom paused the operation of Nord Stream 2\u2019s predecessor, Nord Stream 1, for maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>That Russian state-owned company has continued turning down the spigot of gas to Europe. In recent weeks, it has cut the volume in Nord Stream 1 to just 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Analysis In September 2018, the German delegation to the United Nations General Assembly snickered when then-President Donald Trump said their country would \u201cbecome totally dependent on Russian energy.\u201d Some observers gleefully joined in. Trump said during the same speech: \u201cReliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}