Energy slavery, which prophesies the FRG Donald Trump, has nothing to do with reality, like the "power of Moscow" in the matter of increasing the contribution to the defense industry of NATO, says the German political scientist Jonas Drigger. At the summit of the alliance countries, the American leader threw a couple of stones at the German kitchen garden. The first cobblestone flew after the statement that Berlin is under the control of the Kremlin, and after the launch of the "Nord Stream-2" this dependence will intensify. On the foreign policy arena, although they condemned the tone of Mr. President, they started talking more loudly about the "Russian-German conspiracy," thereby explaining the modest contribution of the FRG to NATO. A fuel and energy project was dubbed "the new Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact". "However, this view is erroneous. Energy trade does not give Russia any special leverage to exert pressure on Germany's political decisions, "Dridger wrote in the pages of The National Interest, explaining his assurances by cutting Moscow's gas, Moscow will lose the buyer, as he" will easily find a replacement ". Germany is not Ukraine - The Kremlin will not be able to turn supplies into "political weapons". Germany receives only about 40% of its gas from Russia, which is only one-fourth of the country's energy. If suddenly the latter decided to activate the same political leverage, then it had to cut the pipe to the whole of the European Union, since Brussels united the energy market of the EU countries in order to protect them from "energy manipulation of Russia and discrimination of European clients".

And, finally, it is simply not advantageous for Moscow to stop deliveries, as it will lose more than Berlin, the political scientist is sure. "The sale of gas to Europe accounts for three-quarters of the total export of Russian gas and represents the backbone of the country's economy," he explained, adding that more profits than gas sales to Europe are not brought by Russia even by "super-deals" with the Middle Kingdom. As for the second "stone" launched by Trump, Berlin prefers to invest money not in the military budget, but in the economic and diplomatic. This tradition did not arise today.