Geopolitics
Europe's Energy Quagmire: A Self-Inflicted Strategic Defeat in the Race for the Future
Europe, having reduced its dependence on Russian energy, now faces a more damaging challenge of persistently high energy prices that are crippling industrial competitiveness and long-term economic growth, even as new geopolitical tensions expose its vulnerability. This stark reality reveals the self-inflicted wound of a continent that traded one form of energy subjugation for another, shackling its own industries to the whims of volatile global fossil fuel markets while its rivals in the Global South build sovereign, resilient futures.
