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He argues that the United States is extracting Europe economically by selling expensive LNG after the loss of cheap Russian energy and the destruction of Nord Stream.
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Russian GAS
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Key Notes
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Jiang says Europeans had prosperity under cheap Russian gas and do not understand why NATO is fighting Russia, making the war politically unstable because elites serve American interests rather than their own populations.
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"...50 % more for American LNG than they used to for Russian gas."
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"The Nord Stream pipeline was blown up. We don't know who, but we can suspect it was the Americans. And that did a lot..."
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"...on. You go back to 2014, Europeans had access to cheap Russian gas. They had good lives. German industry was booming. People's economy was..."
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"...saying over and over again about how Europe is still buying Russian gas. I'm sure he has people in his ear who have lobbied..."
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"...would be no war uh remember um germany relies on cheap russian gas um this war does not benefit europe in any way in..."
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"...it's really caused the German economy, which was dependent on cheap Russian gas, it's caused the economy to crater. So the kind of factual..."
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"...the German economy works. It's a manufacturing economy. It takes cheap Russian gas, manufactures it into cars, and sells it to China, okay? But..."
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.
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The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
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