I don’t think they can make that kind of dough in the homeland.
One of the better outcomes of the fall of Soviet communism.
Ever heard the term, "Chinese money" used for accounting entries that represent money changing hands within the company as opposed to real money?
"That kind of dough" ain't going to be all that much better than rubles if King Barry manages to keep this country paying through the nose for energy by finishing off the coal industry and shipping new found NG off to the poor little Europeans.
Sell the world coal if we're too stupid to use it, but keep everything else in this country and energy prices will go so low that companies will move factories back here because the higher wage costs will be more than offset by the lower energy costs.
Oddly enough, though, when we trip over a huge amount of NG here in the US, whoa, "we better ship it to Europe in order to keep Putin in line".