Can't rely too much on the United States, European corporate executives consider buying Russian natural gas

[Text/Observer Network Zhang Jingjuan] Faced with the "fierce" US President Trump, Europe, which has been struggling to decouple Russia's energy, is considering repurchasing Russian gas.

According to Reuters on the 14th, during the energy crisis between 2022 and 2023, the U.S. liquefied natural gas helped fill the European supply gap caused by the withdrawal of Russia's gas to a certain extent. But as Trump shakes the European and American relations established after World War II and uses energy as a bargaining chip for trade negotiations, European companies have begun to be wary of their dependence on the United States becoming a weakness.

Against this backdrop, executives of large EU companies began to post things that were unimaginable a year ago: importing some Russian natural gas, including imported from Russian state-owned giant Gazprom, may be a good idea.

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