The above video is a montage of President Donald Trump speaking to admonishing European Union leaders about their capitulation to Putin and Russia on energy in 2018, followed by Fox Business host, Stuart Varney opining in 2022.
Partial transcript of Clip One: “Well I have to say I think it’s very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia where you’re supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia. So we’re protecting Germany, were protecting France, were protecting all of these countries, and the numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia without paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia. So we’re supposed to protect you against Russia, but they’re paying billions of dollars to Russia, and I think that’s very inappropriate. And the former chancellor of Germany is the head of the pipeline company that’s supplying the gas.
Ultimately Germany will have almost seventy percent of their country controlled by Russia with natural gas. So you tell me is that appropriate? I mean would like been complaining about this from the time I got in. It should have never been allowed to have happened, but Germany is totally controlled by Russia, because they were getting from sixty to seventy percent of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline. And you tell me if that’s appropriate, because I think it’s not. And I think it’s a very bad thing for NATO, and I don’t think it should have happened. And I think we have to talk to Germany about it.
On top of that, Germany is just paying a little bit over one percent, whereas the United States in actual numbers is paying 4four point two percent of a much larger GDP. So I think that’s inappropriate also. You know we’re protecting Germany, we’re protecting France, we’re protecting everybody, and yet we’re paying a lot of money to protect. Now this has been going on for decades. This has been brought up by other presidents, but other presidents never did anything about it, because I don’t think they understood it, or they just didn’t want to get involved, but I have to bring it up because I think it’s very unfair to our country. It’s very unfair to our taxpayers, and I think that these countries have to step it up. Not over a 10-year period; have to step it up immediately.
Germany is a rich country. They talk about they could increase it a tiny bit by 2030. Well, they could increase it immediately tomorrow, and have no problem. I don’t think it’s fair to the United States. So we’re gonna have to do something, because we’re not going to put up with it. We can’t put up with it, it’s inappropriate.
So we have to talk about the billions and billions of dollars that’s being paid to the country that we’re supposed to be protecting you against. You know everybody’s, everybody’s talking about it. All over the world they’ll say well wait a minute, we’re supposed to be protecting you from Russia, but why are you paying billions of dollars to Russia for energy? Why are countries in NATO, namely Germany, having a large percentage of their energy needs paid you know to Russia and taken care of by Russia?…”
Complete transcript of Clip Two: Back in the day, Donald Trump hammered the Europeans. He wanted them to defend themselves against the Russians instead of relying on us. He warned them against relying on Russia for their oil and gas Supplies, but they hated Trump, especially Germany’s Angela Merkel. She wouldn’t spend more on defense. And when Mister Trump lost the election, she promptly canceled plans for gas from America. She threw Germany into Russia’s hands. That is where Germany and much of Europe is now. Beholden to Russia which supplies 40% of Europe’s natural gas.
That is why Germany is not behaving like an ally to Ukraine. They are scared to oppose Russia. they’re reluctant to impose sanctions, and won’t help Ukraine’s defense. Asked to supply military supplies. You know what they said? Five Thousand helmets. Helmets. Europe is not helping itself either. The climate crowd won’t let them.
There is as much natural gas on European soil as there is in America. There’s a lot of it, but they won’t go get it. No fracking over there. As Germany is about to shut down his last two nuclear power plants, Putin is laughing, oppose me and you will freeze. After meeting virtually with European leaders, President Biden says there is total unity. That’s a façade. Putin won’t believe it. Truth is, the Greens and weak leadership, made energy Russia’s best weapon. And Trump saw it coming.
