Despite all the rhetoric, Europe has continued buying large volumes of Russian energy from third parties. Looks like now that the attack on India failed, the new plan is to force Europe to stop buying energy instead. Europeans will now be forced to become even more reliant on expensive energy exports from the US and their economies will further suffer allowing the US to poach more business from Europe as a result.

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