Energy Extortion: The U.S. Threatens Europe into Fuel Dependency

The empire doesn’t ask Europe to obey—it engineers the conditions that make disobedience impossible.

It wasn’t a policy shift—it was a declaration of war by other means.

This week, Trump made clear what many already knew: Europe is no longer an “ally.” It is an imperial outpost. “They will buy our energy,” he sneered at a campaign stop in Ohio. “They have no choice.” The context was unmistakable: as Europe reels from years of skyrocketing energy prices and industrial collapse post-Nord Stream, the U.S. is now weaponizing fossil fuel dependency as leverage for total economic submission.

This is not a side effect of the Ukraine war—it is its strategic function. As we exposed in “The Great Betrayal”, Washington never intended for Europe to win anything in Ukraine. The war was not meant to be resolved—it was meant to sever Europe from Russian energy flows, dismantle German industrial strength, and reorient EU economies toward U.S. markets, U.S. gas, and U.S. tech platforms.

This is energy imperialism, plain and simple. And it’s backed not by OPEC but by NATO—the military enforcement wing of a dollarized fuel economy.

One act stands above all: the U.S.-executed sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. This was not a mysterious explosion—it was deliberate economic warfare. By physically severing Germany and much of Europe from Russian natural gas, the U.S. locked the continent into dependence on American LNG at inflated prices. And with that sabotage, the myth of European energy sovereignty died in the Baltic Sea.

In 2023 alone, European nations increased their import of American LNG by over 141%, while domestic energy costs tripled in Germany and France. The beneficiaries? U.S. oil majors, shipping conglomerates, and Wall Street financiers. European workers, meanwhile, were handed unemployment, cold homes, and the promise of an electric car future powered by American fracked gas.

The Green transition was never a transition. It was a hostile takeover.

And now the mask is off. Trump’s crude announcement was not a gaffe—it was doctrine: the Monroe Doctrine 2.0, extended eastward. No sovereign energy policy. No alternative suppliers. No multilateral negotiations. Just American fuel, American prices, American terms.

Europe is being treated as a resource colony—not through direct annexation, but through market restructuring enforced by energy blockade. This is what we at Weaponized Information define as hyper-imperialism: a system in which military confrontation, infrastructure sabotage, and climate crisis are all weaponized to direct the flow of capital and commodities.

The irony is almost tragic. The EU once imagined itself the model of “rules-based” liberal order. It now finds itself ruled by diktat—forced to deindustrialize, remilitarize, and reorganize around American strategic objectives. The very technocratic class that once fantasized about a post-national Europe is now being shoved back into national austerity by the empire it bowed to.

We will not mince words: Europe is under siege by its closest partner.

The choice now is not between American gas and Russian pipelines. It is between continued vassalage and a revolutionary break from U.S.-centric capital.

Because if Europe remains too cowardly to say no, it will be sacrificed—just like Ukraine was.

Redlines are being drawn. Europe’s last line may be made of gas—but the real line is political.
And it’s time to cross it.