Guest Piece: The Geopolitical Problem of the US—a German-Russo-Japanese Connection

[Note: This is the second of a series of pieces from George McMillan, CEO of McMillan Associates, a geopolitical and analytical energy company with extensive global studies and expertise. The first piece in the series can be found here. You can watch or listen to his discussion with Stu Turley on this and other topics in Episode #160 of the Energy News Beat Podcast linked here.]

By George McMillan

The possibility of the Alternative For Deutschland Party to defeat Olaf Scholz and the Social Democratic Party and repair Nordstream to purchase Russian Natural Gas is real along with the probability that they would immediately repair the Nordstream pipelines.

The fundamental geopolitical problem of the United States boils down to preventing its two key allies, Germany and Japan, from purchasing cheaper Russian oil and natural gas. Delivered by pipeline, that cheap gas would make Germany’s and Japan’s heavy industries increasingly globally competitive. This would compel the secondary and tertiary industrial power centers in their regional orbit to follow suit, connecting to cheap Russian oil and natural gas in order to remain industrially competitive as well.