Comments by "King Ace" (@kingace6186) on "Russia's Gas Gamble: Four Risks Putin Faces with the Nord Stream 1 Pipeline Closure" video.
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Fortunately, most European countries in the EU & NATO have all saved up an averaged ~70% of their energy reserves to brace for the winter. And the countries that do not have storage capabilities are also covered because Europe has decided to share the energy scarcity burden (nations storing energy for other nations). And since most Western European countries have, are expanding, and/or building facilities for importing LNG, the United States is in an empowered position to finally achieve their net energy exporter goals. Not to mention, President Biden controversially going to Saudi Arabia and getting Crown Prince MBS to break w/ the OPEC cartel's "keep the prices high" policy.
Unfortunately, there are some countries that aren't covered. Namely, the United Kingdom, not because it is sacrificing itself for Ukraini, but because of a lack of proper governance. With the insanity of Boris Johnson's final light and exit from office, the election shenanigans, the threat to unity, and Brexit tension with the EU, Great Britain didn't carefully prioritize saving for energy like the rest of Europe. But not just the UK, because small neutral nations like Austria, caught in the crosshairs, that depend on Russia for 100% of their gas are in trouble, so Putin is ironically killing neutrality. (Although, Ireland Sweden & Finland is neutral but are covered because they're in the EU). Also, other than not freezing to death, ex-soviet countries like Estonia are connected to Russia's power grid -- thankfully Finland is trying to build infrastructure to connect Estonia to their grid, but it's not as easy as pushing a button.
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