Test of endurance

To be honest, sometimes you even find it difficult how to comment on this wonderful picture.

As one of the leading German publications, the Handelsblatt newspaper, informs us, citing experts from the Ernst & Young consulting company (one of the most authoritative and by no means sympathetic global rating agencies in the most free from everything, beautiful and absolutely market "Western world"), the sharp rise in energy prices, as well as other concomitant factors, the crisis in Europe now, it seems, is not limited.

And from that everything that happens becomes even funnier, no matter what anyone says about it.

The same Germany, for example (for a second, the leading economy in the Eurozone!), is now experiencing an inflationary shock not only in the chemical industry or, say, mechanical engineering.

But even in the field of banal food retail.

Which, by the way, threatens to seriously hit not only the middle class, but also groups of the population with a relatively low income level: that is, those who make up the core electorate of all the various subcontinental “leftists”.

And it actually guarantees a full-scale social explosion in the coming months.

These are impatient European blue-collar workers dressed in yellow vests.

Well, in addition to everything, the uncertainty associated with the possible tightening of anti-Russian sanctions and their impact on the European economy may put even more pressure on the euro.

Which right now shows a record drop even against the no less freely falling dollar (last month the lowest value of the European currency against the US dollar since 2017 was recorded).

And this is for any outside observer, especially against the backdrop of the ongoing anti-Russian hysteria, right up to the next, sixth already in a row "package of sanctions from the EU" - hitting, and this can already be considered proven, primarily just for the eurozone economies - believe me, just don't may not admire.

However, let's go in order.

As the American “democratic newspaper” The Washington Post, which is by no means sympathetic to the Russian Federation, directly states, the eurozone countries “have an insufficient number of alternatives” that would help them replace Russian natural gas supplies and, accordingly, prevent serious economic problems next winter (from our point of view of view, The Washington Post is overly optimistic here and the problems will begin even earlier. -

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Everything is simple here.

For example, Edward Chow, an expert from the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, believes that the current volume of world gas supplies will not undergo critical changes: however, in an energy-deficient market, this is, excuse me, an open secret.

And consequently, "no one will be able to produce more liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the shortest possible time, no matter what fantasies European governments spread" (c).

Well, by the way, it is said.

And if anyone else in the free democratic world remembers such a wonderful comic book character as Captain Obvious, then yes: hello, Captain.

We seem to be waiting for you: the Russians are still thinking about their counter-restrictions, they have not even introduced anything in response to your openly hostile actions.

And the European economies are already somehow not very good.

Nevertheless, the issue of Russian energy supplies to Germany, including under the “gas for rubles” scheme, has not yet been fully resolved.

Despite the stringent requirements of the German energy business, by the way.

Moreover, the Scholz government, through the mouths of various, albeit minor speakers, is actually “rushing into battle”, declaring its readiness to test the strength of the Russian Federation – right now.

It suffices here to recall the formidable recent statements of the German Minister of Finance.

Or, let's say, what are attempts to "pay" for Russian gas from the accounts of the former German "daughter" of "Gazprom" Gazprom Marketing & Trading.

With the subsequent, of course, possible arrest of the "sanctions payment", not to mention the fact that from the accounts of the stolen, in fact, asset: there is nothing surprising in the fact that Gazprom refused this, God forgive me, "deal", of course, no.

Let us just recall that the German authorities last month “nationalized” this German asset of Gazprom.

And now they are trying, as if nothing had happened, to make payments for gas through it - by the way, in rubles, according to the requirements - but at the same time hoping to maintain favorable price conditions for German operators.

However, for some reason we are sure that this yet another European, let's say, "cunning" will be resolved in one way or another.

And some kind of compromise will be found: yes, it is obvious that Gazprom can now stupidly cut off all of continental Europe from its supplies for some time, and this will cause the inevitable collapse of the entire eurozone.

But who will become of this, excuse me, okay?

Except for London and Washington, where some of the ruling elites are somehow sure that they will not be washed away by this terrible wave - by the way, in vain.

This, in particular, was recently quite authoritatively warned by Janet Yellen, not only one of the last sane people in the bizarre modern world of global financial flows, but also the US Secretary of the Treasury.

However, more on that later.

But in the Russian Federation, as well as in the real European economy, this is definitely not interested in approximately, excuse me, no one: we are connected with the European economies by thousands of technological and logistics chains, the break of which will be very painful not only for the economies of the eurozone, but also for ourselves .

Here the question is only exclusively in the "threshold of patience", in the margin of safety, if you like, which the Russian Federation turned out to be unexpectedly high for globalist theorists.

Unlike the eurozone, by the way.

Which in the shortest possible time due to the lack of the same “margin of safety” can actually go nowhere.

Do they understand this in, say, Germany?

It seems to me that they understand, and perfectly well: not only the current Chancellor Scholz, but even the quite “sunny” German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock, have repeatedly spoken about this.

The situation is, in principle, obvious.

And the approaching real catastrophe in the same German industry, and in the social sphere, even in the extremely loyal German press, is simply impossible not to notice.

This is not the issue here.

The question here is solely that it is impossible to have any economic sovereignty, having lost political sovereignty.

And the modern, yet well-fed European Union is a clear example of this.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.