The Cost of Zelenskiy

Congress and Sponge-Brain-Poops-Pants sent more than $40 BILLION tax dollars to Ukraine, resulting in a jump in the price of food and fuel here.

That's bad enough.  But the Cost of Zelenskiy in Europe?

Much higher.

Russia reduced natural gas to Europe again Friday, including cutting flows by half to Italy and Slovakia and completely to France, as countries have worked to ease their dependence on Russian supplies amid the war in Ukraine.

It marks the third day of significant reductions to the fuel that powers industry and generates electricity in Europe, which also have hit Germany and Austria. It has further spiked already-high energy prices that are driving record inflation in the European Union.

Russia has blamed a technical problem for the cuts to the key Nord Stream 1 pipeline serving Germany and France, saying equipment being refurbished in Canada was stuck there because of Western sanctions. Leaders in Germany and Italy called the reductions a political move, and it’s escalated the energy tensions in Europe, following Russia’s previous cutoff of natural gas to Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, the Netherlands and Denmark....

You recall that Donald Trump TOLD the EU that their dependence on Russian fuel was stupid.  But they didn't like hearing that from some Mean-Tweet and Not-Gentry guy.  Oh, well.

The EU and US Deep State "brain trusts" thought that they could turn Putin's Russia into a Putin-less Servant (or Vassal) State, following a British strategy in place since roughly 1800 or so (!!)  Looks like that Grand Strategy didn't take into account European stupidity, did it?

Want a little more?  This from ZeroHedge:

...Russia knows it has the West on the ropes. We need what they produce and now they are determined to set the rules on who gets them and for what price. It knows that European leaders are puppets with Klaus Schwab’s hand up their asses.

And it knows Davos has zero leverage over Russia’s actions from here on out.

Which brings me to the statements linked above by Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, speaking at a panel at the St. Petersburg Economic Investment Forum (SPEIF) who just put the situation in the starkest terms there is.

“The game of nominal value of money is over, as this system does not allow to control the supply of resources. …Our product, our rules. We don’t play by the rules we didn’t create.”

Miller’s statement should be thought of as a statement of principle across all theatres of operation for Russia. This doesn’t just apply to natural gas or oil. This is everything, all of Russia’s dealings with the West from here on out will be on its terms not the West’s.

This is clearly the biggest geopolitical middle finger in the post WWII period.

Let's see which countries become Servant/Vassal States and lose their leaders when winter hits.