In the Alice-in-Wonderland world of the disintegrating British Empire, the Russian government’s efforts to lower the price of natural gas in Europe, by refusing to dump more gas on the spot market and instead insisting on long-term fixed supply contracts, has been transformed into Putin’s latest crime against humanity.
Bloomberg ran a wire to “expose” this heinous Russian plot with the following headline: “Russia Wants Gas Price 60% Lower To Keep Energy Grip on Europe.”