Both sides may want it politically, but the U.S. president can’t instantly boost exports and firms don’t necessarily want to “drill, baby, drill.”

Prime among these is a longstanding dispute over European energy security that has found the U.S., Russia, and various European states on opposing sides.  These energy wars, if left unaddressed, threaten to cripple Europe for decades to come.

Europe might soon feel "intense pressure" to reach some sort of an agreement with Russia regarding its war against Ukraine, Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in a post on X on Jan. 6. His words came only two weeks before the inauguration of U.

Russia launched 39 Shahed drones, other simulator drones and four ballistic missiles according to Ukraine’s Air Force. Ukrainian air defense forces shot down two missiles and 24 drones. A further 14 drone simulators were lost in location, the statement said.

A decades-long Russian-Ukrainian transit gas deal to Europe ended on Jan. 1. For now, the most acute effects are being felt in a region called Transnistria, on the eastern edge of Moldova.

Donald Trump has threatened the EU with a trade war unless it buys more US oil and gas. But despite Brussels signalling openness to the idea, it has no power to buy — and European countries are importing record volumes of cheaper liquefied natural gas from Russia.

Still, the official announcement declined to use the word war to characterize Moscow’s activities outside Ukraine. Instead, the EU condemned Russians’ “destabilising” and “malicious actions.” The inability to describe acts of war as acts of war is part of a culture of distortion and denial regarding the subject of state-sponsored violence.

Donald Trump wants to sell Europe more gas. That sounds doable: the European Union needs more of it. And the trade might discourage the U.S. president-elect from slapping a 10% tariff on European goods which could,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Europe that it has “no chance” against Russia without Ukraine. Speaking to Polish media outlet Onet, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine’s victory was vital to stopping the Kremlin before it could invade the rest of Europe.

Information sharing, sanctions and prosecuting the perpetrators are important steps. But will they be enough to deter Moscow?

Just days out from the return of Donald Trump to the White House, the future of Russia’s war against Ukraine is dominated by a great unknown: whether the incoming president will manage to push Moscow to stop its advance on the battlefield,

The Turkish Stream pipeline enabled Russia to avoid using Ukraine as a transit country when exporting natural gas to Europe, the Middle East Monitor reported.