Ukraine (closed; covers till August 2014)

[JMA]

Ah the gas issue.

Perhaps now we can return to the earlier defence of Germany's strategic decision to place reliance on energy from Russia.

A massive strategic error. Who was responsible and whose heads should roll?

This argument is getting way too much play, much of it from people who should know better. US gas exports are not going to rescue Europe.

It is true, and much said, that the US is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas production. It is also true that the US is... well, the America of natural gas consumption. Gas available for export is not a factor of production, it's a factor of production minus consumption.

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