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“Who’s Sorry Now?”

The other day in order to stay cool during a California Flex Alert warning, I was driving around in my air conditioned gasoline powered Rav4  and listening to SiriusXM’s “Sounds of the Fifties.” When a 1958 song, “Who’s Sorry Now” by Connie Francis, started playing, I immediately thought about Germany.

The  refrain goes like this:

“Who’s sorry now? 

Who’s sorry now? 

Whose heart is achin’ for breakin’ each vow? 

Who’s sad and blue? Who’s cryin’ too?…”

Why did this remind me of Germany?

Go back to 2018, more specifically to 9/25/2018 at the United Nations where some prescient world figure said, “Reliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation … Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.”

In response to this warning, a German diplomat laughed. 

Fast forward four years to Sept. 2022 … “who’s sorry now?”

Europe, which voluntarily and recently became dependent on Russian natural gas was warned of the consequences, and is now being held hostage after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine earlier this year.

From the Washington Examiner:

“Russia said on 9/6 that it would not resume natural gas flow to the European Union until sanctions are lifted, all but acknowledging that it is intentionally inflicting an energy crisis on Europe as a means of countering Western economic punishment for its invasion of Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on 9/6/22 that the “problems” pumping gas through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline “came about because of the sanctions Western countries introduced against our country and several companies.”

So, in essence, Europe relied on a single energy provider, and is now vulnerable to extortion and intimidation, just as was predicted by a speaker at the U.N. in September, 2018. 

Q: Who was that speaker who predicted what is happening today?

A: None other than President Donald Trump.

I’ll wager that the German diplomats are no longer laughing at what he said. 

“Who’s sorry now?”

9/8/22

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