Mick Wallace, an Irish member of the European Parliament (MEP), believes the European Union’s sanctions against Russia advance the United States’ interests.
On February 23, 2023, Wallace stated that anti-Russia sanctions positively benefit the US at Europe’s expense.
Wallace is of the view that the US never desired European countries buying Russian gas, which is cheaper, so they could sell their own fracking gas at quadruple the price of Russian gas.
The Irish MEP claimed that what European businesses have to put up with is “madness.”
“The US didn’t want Europe buying gas from the Russians in the first place that for the last couple of years they tried to block the Nord Stream project. We’re now buying filthy LNG gas, fracked gas from the Americans and at a much greater price. The industry in Germany is having to pay four times more for American LNG than the American industry pays back in America,” Wallace stated.