What Trump’s Russian gas proposal could cost Europe | The Dip Podcast

Russia is attacking the power system that keeps Ukraine's economy running. Ukraine is striking the oil industry that helps fund Moscow's war. US negotiators have reportedly floated a return of Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine. Could energy trade help secure peace, or restore a dependence Europe has spent years trying to escape?

DW speaks to Agata Loskot-Strachota of the OSW Centre for Eastern Studies and Benjamin Schmitt of the University of Pennsylvania's Kleinman Center for Energy Policy about the pressures on both countries, Europe's choices and the risks of treating energy as a bargaining chip.

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Chapters:
0:00 Could energy help end the war?
1:40 Living with Europe's energy insecurity
2:52 Washington's change of direction
4:31 Europe's uneasy reliance on the US
6:38 The Russian gas proposal
9:12 Would Europe buy Russian gas again?
11:58 Keeping Ukraine's economy running
14:52 Protecting Ukraine's energy supply
17:12 Pressure on Russia's oil income
20:49 What refinery strikes cost Russia
22:59 What place for energy in a peace deal?
24:45 Europe's winter and its longer-term choice

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