“This is Europe’s problem, not America’s, and needs a European solution.”
Before this is over Jane and Joe six-pack in Europe is going to reach the inescapable conclusion that this is none of the US’s business, and that this could and should have been avoided, and was irrefutably provoked by the US state dept.
The result will be the US kicked out of Europe by popular demand. This will be the end of reserve currency and petro-dollar.
Quite frankly it would have been in Europe’s interest to open Nordstream2, even though that would have been against US interests. Now Europe is heading for an economic catastrophe and will no longer be able to compete globally with increased energy pricing. They too are caught up in the Western financial system with their unpayable debt and see no alternative but to keep the ponzi going, but things are coming to a head soon. Unfortunately I see a world war resulting from this because the US oligarchs seem willing to risk it all to preserve the current financial order. Will Europe continue to follow the US lead and support WW3 or will the EU start breaking up? Personally I see the EU fracturing over this and it’s hard to predict the end result.