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Putin has been accused of blackmailing Europe by blocking its gas supply. So in this video, we question that hypothesis and discuss whether Russia really is piling the pressure on Europe and starting an energy and political crisis.
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1 – https://www.oxfordenergy.org/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Why-Are-Gas-Prices-So-High.pdf
2 – https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/natural-gas/070921-eu-gas-consumption-in-q1-up-76-on-year-on-heating-power-demand-ec
3 – https://www.ft.com/content/80109d85-f896-44fc-b4da-523b626c5c3d
4 – https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/europe-made-mistake-ditching-long-term-gas-deals-putin-2021-10-06/
5 – https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/10/16/it-is-tempting-to-blame-foreigners-for-europes-gas-crisis
6 – https://www.reuters.com/article/power-prices-gazprom-winter-idUSL8N2R12IT
7 – https://news.sky.com/story/vladimir-putin-says-russia-can-give-europe-more-gas-and-rejects-nonsense-idea-hes-using-energy-as-a-weapon-12432952
8 – https://twitter.com/OilSheppard/status/1450043701615636480
9 – https://news.sky.com/story/gas-price-crisis-is-putin-using-energy-supply-as-a-weapon-and-what-is-its-new-nord-stream-2-pipeline-12428338
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In this video, we’ll discuss the EU’s new plan to quietly tax US Big Tech – and whether it could work.
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The EU’s plan to capture US Big Tech revenue
https://www.ft.com/content/ad06ed89-f600-4694-8c95-7d53b6d3315b?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/brussels-looks-capture-big-tech-through-tax-large-corporations-ft-reports-2026-10-07/
EU rejects France’s calls for an EU-wide digital services tax
https://www.ft.com/content/e5a76494-71df-4ee0-a85f-b28f2c94ded6?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.vatcalc.com/global/eu-holds-back-on-digital-services-tax-as-us-raises-retaliation-threat/
EU’s proposed CORE mechanism
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/08/28/the-commissions-foray-into-corporate-taxation-a-core-problem-for-the-eu-budget/
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/eu-budget/long-term-eu-budget/eu-budget-2028-2034_en#driving-prosperity-via-competitiveness-research-and-innovation
US exempted from Pillar 2 of OECD’s global minimum corporate tax agreement
https://youtu.be/85voZ2FJhZk?si=6jVOHTB5CBTKvigd
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/us-exemption-oecd-global-tax-deal-multinational-companies
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/08/oecd-deal-imposes-global-minimum-corporate-tax-of-15
G7 statement on global minimum tax
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/06/g7-statement-on-global-minimum-taxes.html
https://www.ey.com/en_gl/technical/tax-alerts/canada-g7-releases-statement-on-global-minimum-tax-pillar-two-and-canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax
European Digital Services Taxes (DSTs)
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/digital-services-taxes-europe/
https://taxfoundation.org/testimony/pillar-one-digital-services-taxes/
https://www.reuters.com/en/germany-seeks-levy-10-tax-online-platforms-like-google-2025-05-29/
Accusations of tax avoidance by Silicon Valley tech companies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years
https://itep.org/trump-meta-tesla-alphabet-amazon-obbba-taxes/
https://itep.org/amazon-alphabet-meta-tesla-pro-trump-tech-companies-avoided-taxes/
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In this video, we will investigate how Russia uses bots for its influence campaigns, how the recent strikes may have affected Russian bots and what this could mean for Russia.
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In this video, we’re going to explain why the Trump-Putin diesel deal is probably illegal; whether it’ll get struck down; and why – either way – it’s a pretty rubbish deal anyway, even from Trump’s perspective.
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Diesel prices/components
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/us-diesel-sales-price-$-per-gallon-w-na-fed-data.html
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/brent-crude-oil
https://www.ft.com/content/f117f347-e1e0-457c-83fc-ba4745581bb2?syn-25a6b1a6=1
Fuel vs Dem congressional ballot
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/09/17/high-petrol-prices-could-hand-democrats-a-mighty-midterm-victory
Trump Truth Social posts
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117412435306815143
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117422699218841250
Zelenskyy comments
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/exclusive-zelensky-putin-trump-diesel-deal
https://thehill.com/policy/international/6141601-russia-strikes-ukraine-power-plant/
Laws
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6140830-fitzpatrick-bill-block-russian-oil/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6968
https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/countering-americas-adversaries-through-sanctions-act-related-sanctions
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5025
Reports that Russia lacks refining capacity
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/10/why-is-us-turning-to-russia-for-diesel-despite-sanctions
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https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/ov/SPEECH_26_1868
https://sieps.se/en/publications/2026/forging-european-strategic-unity-the-case-for-a-european-security-council/
https://www.martenscentre.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/european-security-council-blueprint.pdf
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-greenland-crisis-revives-calls-for-european-security-council/
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/07/future-e3/origins-and-development-e3
https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/the-consultation-process-and-article-4
https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/commentary/european-security-council-between-strategic-need-and-institutional
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2024/757822/EPRS_BRI(2024)757822_EN.pdf
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@ericjarvie
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
So what your suggesting is that demands for energy handed to British energy consumers are in fact blackmailers notes and criminal demands for money and not in fact bills and the UK energy firms are willingly forwarding to the British public the ransom demands and threats as well facilitating the blackmailers crime?… and also theyre taking the stolen money…So British Gas Scottish Power EON EDF and SSE are all implied aswell are willing and active participants in this crime?…That is they know the crime of robbery theft and extortion is taking place and theyre not hesitant about it but actually involved in it…Lets face it that it would be perfectly fair for people to refuse payment for energy and perfectly reasonable that the law should be involved…So why? isnt this happening and is it because even the government's assisting the crime as its British energy firms that are taking the British peoples money and not in reality an foreign adversary…I hope you agree but it doesnt seem in the absence of any proposed legal action or government intervention that allows the despicable crime of theft to take place as though any foreign adversary is profiting from this does it?
@themadfarmer5207
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Well maybe he is… So what. Europe told him they didn't want his gas. His timber, his fertilizer, his steel, his……. Bloody anything ,with a Russian stamp on it. Ukraine stole his gas. So would I if I were in his position. EU… Play stupid games …. Get stupid results
@tumpalmarojohan9675
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
You are lucky Europe you can complaint to the world that you've been blackmailed by Russia. What about me?? Eminem would've said the magic words
@MrBat000
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
How is paying in roubles blackmail??? They have frozen all russian euros …so do they expect russia to give them gas for free??? and yet they have the nerve to call it blackmail.
@stevechang9710
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Europe: we are in solidarity with Ukraine, we should not buy oil and gas from Russia
US: we should ban Russia oil and gas imports
Zelensky: the World should do more to sanction Russia energy
Russia: ok we stop selling gas to you
Euro/US/Zelensky: this is unacceptable!! This is blackmail!!!
🤦♂️🤦♂️
@lw1zfog
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
ooooh, the eu don’t really like having it up ‘em. didn’t really think it through did they.
@rsdrsd5282
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
YES!!!!!!!!!!! 100000000%
@AR-bh3mn
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Eropa akan mati kedinginan
@purushottamkumarlecturerin2833
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
No Don't think so,because Mr.macron & the German leaders will succeed in framing the peace making process between the Russia and the Ukraine
@eveningstar3230
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
We could use our own fuel, west of shetland, but sturgeon called it off, play into the hands of putin….
@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
We offered them our natural gas and petroleum. We were producing so much we were flaring it.
@hellmalm
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Natural Gas need to be phased out as soon as possible, we’re feeding the dragon (russia) and armageddon (climate change) at the same time, double fail! We need heavy investments into solar, wind and wave power (non plannable renewables) as well as more nuclear power (7th gen) alongside geothermal power (if we’d put the same money as in old oil subsidies it could be a real solution) and hydroelectric power (if possible). An energy Independant EU could be possible.
@danurkresnamurti3598
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
putin is amazing leader and he did it for rusia and for himself
@oamost
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
just reboot the goddamn nuclear power plants in germany. eazy peazy
@srbislavn
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
After all those sanctions towards Russia and delaying Nord stream 2 by EU and refusing long contact with Gazprom it looks much more like European stupidity . Where is a question about American LNG …. total silence in western media…. What kind of journalism is this ?
@DSephi
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
But who is Pew-teen?
@WestfaliaStuff
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Some facts you might've missed. 1. Russia was providing gas for Europe and especially Germany during the entirety of the Cold War. 2. Poland andUkraine were getting transit fees (in the form of gas worth billions) for allowing Russian gas through their territory, and it was them that were pushing for even more free stuff (on the German tab), and neither Russia nor Germany were excited about this prospect.
@robertbrown374
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Europe is hostile
Russia has a right to sell as much and to whom it wants.
In reality Europe is black mailing Russia with sanctions.
@robertbrown374
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Nothing wrong if putin holds back gas. Europe sanctions Russia all the time.
@taylormattlock5433
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Knock Knock….the big giant of the west was correct again. The U.S warned Europe, but they waved it off as U.S trying to push its agenda on them. Now they are doing it again with a China trade deal even as U.S is pulling away from China. EU should learn, you aren't a superpower when you can easily be blackmailed and have no way of fighting back. Putin and Xi only care about the EU because it hurts the U.S. They are too prideful to admit that. Xi and Putin do not care about Europe past what it can control to stifle U.S interests.
@98TrueRocker98
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Please learn how to correctly pronounce Putin. Its Put-in not Pu-tin
@ihorkarpiuk4102
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Russian government is just a bandit gang. No one would take them serious unless they killed the unlike-minded
@huygaasainaa8545
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
If you want my water follow my rule or no water
@nonyabisness6306
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Is Putin doing what Putin has been doing openly and blatantly for years? Erm, take a guess.
@teemum.9023
February 24, 2024 at 3:56 pm
2. Russia helping Europe in need if they agree to the deal means that Russia would send more than usual gas as a good will gesture, not that they have sent less than usual on purpose.