Hey Dems: If Trump’s A ‘Russian Stooge’ Why Is America Eating Putin’s Lunch On Energy Sales?

The better question might be, who lobbied Schumer’s Democrats to fight and keep Putin’s Nordstream 2 open when Republicans wanted to shut it down?

(Trick question. We already know about the Russian lobbyists.

Here’s what ClashDaily wrote two long months before Putin’s latest war in Ukraine started: RUSSIAN INFLUENCE: Ted Cruz Blasts Dem Senators For Taking Big Dollars From Putin’s Pipeline Lobby)

For the record, Cruz isn’t blowing smoke. He names names and gives dollar amounts. It’s historical record, and Schumer & Co. were caught not only taking Putin’s direction and cash, but whipping the vote to block Nordstream 2 sanctions, too.

Let’s start with the news of the day, and then plug it into the broader historical context.

When Donald Trump warned European leaders years ago that their dependence on Russian gas would leave them “hostage to Moscow,” the remark was met with skepticism — and even laughter.

Nearly a year into his second term, those same leaders are now scrambling to secure long-term contracts for U.S. liquefied natural gas as Russia’s once-dominant grip on Europe’s energy market unravels exactly as Trump predicted.

Russia’s decision to choke off gas deliveries in 2022 — an attempt to fracture Western unity and pressure Europe into abandoning Ukraine — has had the opposite effect. Its share of European Union gas imports has fallen from 45% in 2021 to under 10% today. U.S. gas now accounts for nearly 57% of Europe’s total imports, compared to roughly one-third before the war.

The cutoff accelerated a historic realignment in global energy, with U.S. LNG producers rushing to fill the void. The shift has not only blunted one of Vladimir Putin’s most powerful geopolitical weapons but also fueled an American export boom that is binding Europe more tightly to Washington than at any point since the Cold War. — FoxNews

Contrast Trump’s prescient understanding of how gas could be used as a blackmail tactic against Europe against the shocking statement by Speaker Johnson where he told us Biden not only put a moratorium on Liquid Natural Gas exports, but when asked about it, had no idea that he had done so. (That was back in January of 2024, when he was still ‘sharp as a tack’ and his party’s uncontested nominee.)

Part of the reason Dems have such horrible policies stems from their habit of only looking at problems through the spending side of a ledger.

“Oh, there’s conflict between Russia and Ukraine? Let’s give Ukraine more money!”

Not exactly the greatest or most sustainable plan if Russia happens to be making money hand over fist through their petro economy. Especially when Biden’s Green-New-Deal-in-disguise that came dressed up as an ‘Inflation Reduction’ plan chokes US energy production, thereby letting Putin sell his energy for still greater profit.

Trump took a very different approach. Maximum energy. production on our side, making energy of all kinds more affordable for personal use, business use, transportation, and the big one: industry use in areas like manufacturing/high tech data centers. And on the other side of the equation, he introduced the idea of secondary sanctions against anyone buying energy from Russia while they are still at war with Ukraine.

American energy is made more ethically, with greater environmental safeguards than many of our global competitors. It also has the added benefit of NOT lining the pockets of brutal regimes like Russia, Iran, or Venezuela.

But there is another benefit of increased American production. It gives allies like Europe an alternative to meeting their energy needs from people like Putin, who would use Europe’s energy needs to keep funding his war chest…. sending their consumer dollars West to America rather than East to Russia.

To anyone not blinded by Putin’s lobbying of the Democrat Senate, it’s the perfectly obvious solution.

Why did Schumer’s Senators take the Putin lobby money to keep the pipeline open in the first place? Well, you’d have to ask them, wouldn’t you?