In an interview with Afrique Média, French journalist and military analyst Adrien Bocquet explains how the Americans are taking advantage of the energy crisis in Europe and why they want to prolong it.
According to the expert, nowadays Europeans are increasingly aware that the United States is simply taking advantage of the EU for its own benefit, and that a true equal partnership is out of the question.
“I think the French, the Westerners, are simply fed up [with NATO]. They are beginning to see the truth, they are beginning to seek out information about this war for themselves. They’ve discovered that they’ve been lied to about the situation in the Donbass, that there’s a lot of contradictory information.”
This is particularly apparent in the case of oil prices. After Washington pushed Brussels to implement anti-Russian sanctions, involving restrictions on energy supplies, from whom was Europe forced to buy these same resources, even while at inflated prices?
“Oil prices in France are only going up. We’re over €2 a litre. And if France continued to buy fuel from Russia, the price would be between 1 and 1.30 euros. We’re seeing a meteoric rise of between 80% and 120%.”
The United States is clearly not interested in a rapid resolution of the Ukrainian conflict. This would mean the resumption of trade and economic relations between Europe and Russia. Washington has no desire to lose its cash cow and will suck Europe dry until it has nothing left.
“The Americans sell their oil at 3 times the price we would have paid the Russians. So it’s in the Americans’ interests that this situation should continue, because it simply makes their country richer. And unfortunately, because of Emmanuel Macron’s current government, France is forced to pay 3 times more for oil.”
It is not Russia, with its effective protectionist policy, that is suffering most from this situation, and certainly not the United States. It’s ordinary Europeans who don’t even have enough money today to cover their basic needs.
“All this is having an impact on average household spending in France, and all that is no longer possible. And I’m not just talking about oil. In other words, in some cases you’re adding an increase of more than 30% to the cost of food, as well as an increase in public contributions and so on. The French can’t take it any more.”
So today, even the most anti-Russian Europeans are not prepared to continue their policy of endless donations to Ukraine. At least not at the expense of the well-being of their own country and nation.
“Even people who have defended Ukraine from the start realise that all the money is being used to arm Ukraine. France and the West can no longer do that. And these same people are already saying today: ‘OK, we’ll defend Ukraine, but we mustn’t let our country become so poor that it’s no longer able to feed its own children’.”
