{"id":788,"date":"2026-03-30T10:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/788\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:38:28","slug":"top-putin-ally-predicts-europe-and-britain-will-beg-for-russian-energy-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/788\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Putin ally predicts Europe and Britain will \u2018beg\u2019 for Russian energy \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He also claimed the West had \u201cshot itself in the foot\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-vladimir-putin-europe-energy-gas-oil-executives\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cutting reliance on Russian energy<\/a> after Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitriev, an increasingly visible Kremlin economic envoy who has negotiated with the U.S. about the war in Ukraine, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nampa.org\/text\/22894665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ramped up his messaging<\/a> in recent days, casting Russia as indispensable to global energy markets as supply tightens and arguing <a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/world\/2026\/03\/12\/russia-s-dmitriev-says-he-discussed-global-energy-crisis-with-us-counterparts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Western sanctions have backfired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His bullish remarks come with energy prices skyrocketing as Iran&#8217;s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz disrupts liquefied natural gas flows and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/global-energy-crisis-threaten-ukraine-war-effort\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pushes crude oil toward $100 a barrel<\/a>, stoking fears of a broader economic shock.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Brussels is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-wont-backtrack-on-russian-gas-ban-or-green-transition-says-jorgensen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">holding the line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no road back to dependency on Russian energy,\u201d EU Energy Commissioner Dan J\u00f8rgensen said this week, insisting the bloc should not import \u201cas much as one molecule.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He also claimed the West had \u201cshot itself in the foot\u201d by cutting reliance on Russian energy after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,516,517,518,234,519,501,371,520,521,160,42,225,165,484,522,523,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-conflict","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-dan-jorgensen","12":"tag-energy","13":"tag-energy-markets","14":"tag-imports","15":"tag-investment","16":"tag-kremlin","17":"tag-lng","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-middle-east","20":"tag-oil","21":"tag-roads","22":"tag-russia","23":"tag-sanctions","24":"tag-ukraine","25":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}