Sept. 4, 2022 (EIRNS)—Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz, possibly showing some buyer’s remorse, stated that Germany, despite being hard hit by an energy crisis, will just have to gut it out; for it is more important to continue to support Kiev against Moscow. While he didn’t say that Russia made him employ the sanctions against Moscow that are savaging Germany, he did propose a softened way to blame Russia. In the past, said Scholz at a news conference, Moscow was a reliable energy partner “even during the Cold War.” However, now, that no longer applies.
Whether a direct response to Scholz or not, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained today on Rossiya 1 TV, that Gazprom, the Russian state’s energy behemoth “spent decades” earning its reputation of a reliable natural gas supplier—and even now, as RT reported his words—has so far done nothing to tarnish it: “This is not Gazprom’s fault, this is fault of those politicians, who have taken the decision on sanctions.” European leaders’ decisions, in particular, refusing to service the equipment that Gazprom purchased from Western firms, have simply been “absurd.”
