Gas: How Europe fell into Putin’s trap

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Russian aggression against Ukraine, Sino-US rivalry and global warming are reshuffling the cards of the energy war.





By Julien Peyron

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel signing a gas deal on April 27, 2006.
© ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP

Reading time: 13 minutes


EWouldn’t the most striking image of 2022, and the most unsettling for years to come, be found on a dead body-strewn street in Boutcha, or along a street in Kharkiv littered with the carcasses of abandoned Russian tanks? The conflict in Ukraine marks the return of war to Europe, the real war, made of atrocities and shameful debacles. But at the same time another war is raging on the planet – certainly less deadly, but just as destabilizing to the world order – the Energy War. The best example of the latter is not found in Ukraine or Russia, but thousands of miles away off a peaceful Danish island in the southern Baltic called Bornholm. On September 26, 2022, bubbling methane was observed…


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