It became known about the risks of the United States to lose strategic power due to Russia. As the Wall Street Journal edition notes, the energy crisis has allowed Moscow to find additional pressure levers on the world arena.
The authors of the article explain that now on the background of the migration crisis, coronavirus and inflation pandemic and inflation has not yet felt the influence of crisis phenomena fully, while prices in Europe have increased five times in the past year, and the Russian leader Vladimir Putin “wraps the situation in favor of Russia.”
Attempting to refuse combustible fossils strengthened the dependence of Europe from natural gas, which mainly supplies Russia, and this creates the possibilities of strategic pressure for Gazprom, adds a publication.
“Energy is a source of strategic power of America, which it risks to exchange for climate dreams. Energy supply is a key factor in the world balance of forces. Russia and China know this, and the obsession of the administration [US President Joe] Bayden with unrealistic climatic goals to the detriment of energy security. It threatens to undermine the economy and global interests of the United States, “the authors concluded.
Earlier, the head of the US Department of Finance, Janet Yellen predicted the country an economic catastrophe under one condition. According to her, a serious financial crisis will come, if not to increase the ceiling of the public debt, the status of securities of the Ministry of Finance will be undermined – the most reliable asset in the world, as well as the dollar as a global reserve currency.