Mother Russia

Putin’s Big Prize

Ben Stein
January 07, 2007

Military.com

Here is a terrifying thought:
Europe is now dependent on Russian energy exports for about 40 percent of its daily needs.
Europe gets more energy products from Russia than from OPEC, by far. This kind of dependence on Russia would have been unthinkable in Stalin’s day or Brezhnev’s day. Sensible people would have considered that Red Russia was an unreliable supplier and would use its energy exports to control and subjugate Europe.

But now, with capitalist, money-mad Russia regnant, we assume that we can trust Russia with keeping the lights on in Paris and Berlin and Rome and Prague, because Russia is a law-abiding society based on human decency.

But Russia has already put the screws on Ukraine and Poland about energy issues and made their people shiver with fear. What is far more ominous, the Russian state is
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