While I too fully suspect this was a US Deep State operation, I see this differently from how he sees it. He sees it as America reducing various European countries to the state of vassals and talks about the great economic harm being cut off from Russian energy will cause them.
I’d like to point out their utter dependence on Russian energy was always extremely naive, shortsighted and avoidable. The economic harm they will suffer is entirely their own fault for decades of very foolish political decisions. They never needed be so dependent on another country (Russia) that was always a competitor at best if not an adversary. They allowed idiotic Gaia Worship to guide their energy policy choices and took advice from an autistic Swedish teenage high school dropout when they could have kept open their nuclear power plants and built more, when they could have fracked their own oil and gas, when they could have mined their own coal, when they could have built LNG terminals and more storage capacity and secured long term contracts with other suppliers.
There was simply no thought given to security. Instead, they chose to freeload off of America for their security. They chose to let America run all the risks, pay all the bills, do whatever fighting was necessary, etc while they sat there doing business with the very country they demanded America provide them security against and while they arrogantly laughed when warned that they needed to make themselves more energy independent. The Germans for example refused to keep their word to provide a measly 2% of GDP for defense. They didn’t even come close to that in fact. They were hardly alone in that among European countries.
They’re not laughing now.
Germany has a history of “pragmatism” over “ideology”. That’s why it continues to invest in Iran, for an example, despite the chance Iran could very well use any nuclear weapons they develop against Germany. And we see it here, blithely relying on a pariah Russia for its energy.
Well they blew the horns
And the walls came down
They’d all been warned
And the walls came down
They stood there laughing
They’re not laughing anymore
The walls came down
I don’t think there are any Russians
And there ain’t no Yanks
Just corporate criminals
Playin’ with tanks