European governments have “spat” on their own environmental values by embracing US oil extracted with the help of fracking technology, Russia’s former president has claimed.
In a Telegram post titled “It’s not personal, just business” published on Monday, Dmitry Medvedev, who served as Russia’s president from 2008 till 2012 and is currently deputy chairman of the country’s Security Council, marveled at how “the [EU] Europeans, not stopping to think for a second, spat on all of their ‘immutable values’ of the past decades,” dashing headlong toward “their new fortune – new dirty energy.”
According to Medvedev, “The EU, which ‘lost its marbles’ over the renunciation of Russian energy can now forget about its ‘green ideals’.” The Russian official warned that the continent was in for something it “had previously been so squeamish about,” having to turn a blind eye to just how environmentally unfriendly the fracking technology employed in the US is.
Medvedev claimed that Washington, which “is ready to sink its teeth” into the European energy market, was the main beneficiary of plans to either phase out completely or significantly reduce EU consumption of Russian energy. He argued that Brussel’s “green agenda” had been an obstacle in the way of American expansion in this field in recent years. So, now the US will jump at the opportunity to “make some dough” under the guise of a joint struggle against the “bloodthirsty regime” in Russia, Medvedev surmised.