Oblong Media Global Intelligence Analysis
America can no longer be described simply as Europe’s “ally” in the innocent post-war sense of that word. It is now Europe’s protector, competitor, energy supplier, military supervisor and strategic manipulator, all at once. That is not an alliance of equals. It is dependency dressed up as partnership.
Since the Ukraine war, Europe has paid the highest economic price for Washington’s geopolitical agenda. The EU deliberately cut Russian energy dependency: Russian gas fell from 45% of EU gas imports before the war to 12% in 2025, while Russian oil imports collapsed from 27% to only 2%. But the replacement was not free sovereignty. It was a new dependency on expensive LNG, especially from the United States. EU imports of U.S. LNG rose from 21 bcm in 2021 to an estimated 81 bcm in 2025, supplying 57% of EU LNG imports.
The result is economic self-harm. The Draghi competitiveness report warned that EU companies face electricity prices two to three times higher than U.S. firms, while natural gas costs four to five times more. In plain language, Europe is deindustrialising while America profits from its energy distress.
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Then comes Nord Stream, the ghost at the centre of Europe’s humiliation. The final legal truth is still contested, but German investigators have pursued Ukrainian linked suspects in connection with the pipeline sabotage. What remains politically devastating is this: the destruction of Nord Stream permanently weakened Germany’s direct access to cheap Russian gas, while accelerating Europe’s dependence on costlier LNG markets. Whoever executed the operation, Europe was the victim.
Yet instead of asking who benefited, EU leaders largely buried the strategic question under anti Russian rhetoric. Russia is blamed for everything, while Washington’s profits, pressure and long term strategic advantage are politely ignored. That silence is not statesmanship. It is submission.
Europe’s tragedy is that many of its leaders appear more loyal to NATO orthodoxy than to the living standards of their own citizens. They accept higher energy costs, collapsing competitiveness, military dependence, social hardship and industrial flight, then call it “solidarity.” But solidarity with whom? The European worker? The German manufacturer? The French farmer? The Italian household? Or the American LNG exporter, arms contractor and geopolitical planner?
The United States does not need to invade Europe to control it. It only needs Europe to fear Russia, buy American weapons, import American gas, obey NATO strategy and abandon independent diplomacy. That is how modern empire works: not always through occupation, but through managed dependency.
Europe is not merely sleeping with the enemy. It is paying the enemy’s bills, buying the enemy’s gas, following the enemy’s war script, and calling the arrangement freedom.
By Hon. Chima Nnadi-Oforgu
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