In 2018, when then-President Donald Trump warned Germany about their reliance on Russian energy during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly, the German delegation just laughed it off. It’s no longer a laughing matter now. Russia announced in June that it will reduce natural gas flows to Germany by roughly 40 percent. The German government recently declared that the country had entered the “alarm stage” of the emergency gas plan, calling on its citizens to reduce consumption. In London, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned that Russia could cut gas supplies to Europe entirely to boost its leverage...