The green transition was paid for in roubles, and the people who signed the cheques sat in the chancellery, not on the fringes. When Donald Trump warned the UN General Assembly in 2018 that Germany was making itself dependent on Russian energy, the German delegation was filmed smirking. Merz now tells a British Prime Minister that Russia’s friends sit on the AfD benches. Russia’s most useful friends in Germany wore SPD and CDU rosettes, and they were doing exactly what RT asked.
And look how it turned out. Labour went into the 2024 election promising to ban fracking for good. The Bowland shale stays where it is. Britain buys gas from Norway’s pipelines and from tankers out of Qatar and Texas, at whatever price the world sets that winter. Whether or not Moscow lifted a finger, it got exactly the British energy policy RT spent years asking for, and Burnham’s government is the one delivering it.
So here’s a question for the next time he walks into Number 10 asking what the Russians have been up to. Not the referendum. Ask about the shale.
Would be curious to see this tweet fact-checked:
https://x.com/RealProstoSerge/status/2111101522721317109
If he really said this, it’s over from our side.
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An addendum: I posted the above after a quick reading of the article, thinking it responsive in the “meddling in internals” sense.
If the PTB think my response is . . . unresponsive . . . to the OP, I won’t take it amiss if it disappears. I’m not looking to hijack.
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FWIW, @bobbyB grok says there is no credible evidence that this he said this, and Grok reads a lot more newspapers and news sources than you or I could. So I think it is very unlikely that he said it, in public anyway.
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