Hello everyone, welcome to this week's Gas Lit Nation early show where we're going to

be running our full interview with Gustaf Grussel, a senior policy fellow with the wider

Europe program at the European Council on Foreign Relations for the Berlin office.

This interview is significant because he's going to give you the entire background of

why Europe, namely Germany, a long time leader of Europe, did not do more to contain Putin

earlier.

And it goes from the reasons range from obviously blood money and ideology, Nazis, sympathy

for Putin's fascism, all of it.

So you'll hear that discussion.

And you'll also hear about the current chancellor, Shulz, what he's up against in terms of

the domestic policies in Germany, all of that significant because what has taken place

in the last few days has been a massive sea change in Germany's policy towards Russia.

180, complete flip thanks to Putin's war.

Germany is now increasing its NATO spending.

Germany is going to build a strong defense for its country and therefore Europe.

Germany is going to wean itself off of Russian gas.

It is moving aggressively to find alternatives to Russian gas.

This includes LNG, which is a gas expert, but includes LNG, the gas experts know what

I'm talking about out there.

And Germany has a big moonshot where they want to go 100% renewables by 2035 and they

are finally giving defensive aid to Ukraine and allowing other countries to give their stock

pile or take from their stock pile of German made defensive aid and give that to Ukraine.

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