With the understanding that their US-taxpayer-funded defense capabilities can be revoked on a whim if they reach the wrong consensus.
Name 1 case where that has ever happened.
Europe tells America "jump" and the Democrats say "how high?" When a Republican is in office the Euros generally don't ask because they hate republicans with a passion. I doubt they could even stomach being in the same room as Trump.
plunging Europe into an assured cold winter rather than a very likely one?
The winter already happened and Europe was just fine. Stop repeating the Russian propaganda narrative after it has been proven false.
Nord Stream 2 was never in operation and was never going to be.
Germany and other countries went on a buying spree last August which eliminated any chance of shortages, hence why you saw news stories of energy prices spiking at that time. Those prices came back down before the pipeline blew up.
Name 1 case where that has ever happened.
Europe tells America "jump" and the Democrats say "how high?" When a Republican is in office the Euros generally don't ask because they hate republicans with a passion. I doubt they could even stomach being in the same room as Trump.
Does the destruction of nordstream 2 count, thus plunging Europe into an assured cold winter rather than a very likely one?
The winter already happened and Europe was just fine. Stop repeating the Russian propaganda narrative after it has been proven false.
Nord Stream 2 was never in operation and was never going to be.
Germany and other countries went on a buying spree last August which eliminated any chance of shortages, hence why you saw news stories of energy prices spiking at that time. Those prices came back down before the pipeline blew up.