The Daily Telegraph NZ reports:
[https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/world/eu-a-trampled-worm-veteran-german-politician/]
Banning Russian gas and deepening energy dependence on the US locks the bloc into economic decline, Sahra Wagenknecht has said.
The EU is destined for economic decline and deeper dependence on the US due to its new ban on Russian gas imports, German MP Sahra Wagenknecht has said, describing the bloc as “a trampled worm.”
“The EU is sealing its economic decline and complete dependence on US fracking gas,” the former legislator said in a post on X on Monday.
“Anyone who makes himself a worm should not complain about being trampled underfoot,” she remarked.
The USA has played a blinder here and the Europeans know it.
First it got the Nordstream pipeline from Russia stopped - another useful piece of collateral damage from the war in Ukraine - something the USA had been threatening to do for years but never had the excuse to do it.
Then it managed to get the EU to totally commit to divesting itself of cheaper energy from Russia and buy more expensive US energy instead.
As a result, EU economies have tanked, the EU has become dependant on the highly volatile USA under Trump, and basically consumers are suffering the consequences all over the block.
Result!