Lessons of the energy crisis

American and European leaders haven’t learned them

 
Energy policy is national security policy. So when political leaders get energy policy wrong, they get national security policy wrong.

An obvious example: Germany for years eagerly increased its dependence on Russian oil and gas. German diplomats thought they were implementing a clever strategy: “We’re making Putin dependent on our money!”

Then, just over a year ago, Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. Russian hydrocarbons stopped flowing to Europe. But it’s not imperialism alone that’s to blame for what Brenda Shaffer calls the world’s “worst energy crisis since World War II.”

A research faculty member at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a senior advisor for energy at FDD, she delivered a lecture on this topic last month at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

 
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