cannot rely on the U.S. as we did before [the second-term of U.S. President Donald Trump] to safeguard our security, so it is even more vital that we assert ourselves against further Russian aggression by keeping current sanctions in place and extending them to our goal of zero [fossil fuel] imports [from Russia] as soon as possible, and certainly zero gas by 2027,” a senior source who works closely with the E.U.’s energy security complex exclusively told OilPrice.com recently. It is time to shift to a wartime mindset and turbo-charge our defence production and defence spending.” It also means that securing adequate and sustainable energy supplies from sources other than Russia is a European security priority, as is denying the Kremlin the opportunity to use revenues acquired from gas and oil sales into Europe to be used to fund an attack against it. “In the last delivery of mid- and long-range missiles from Tehran to Moscow, for the first time the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps] included as they had promised in February in a meeting a visit to Moscow, Etemad [a late generation ballistic missile], and Fath 360 [a multi-lunch ballistic missile launching system], with most of the latter to be positioned by Moscow near the Belarus border with Poland,” he underlined.
Author: Simon Watkins
Published at: 2025-05-26 22:00:00
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