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🇺🇸🇪🇺 Decoding Trump’s LNG Offensive Against Europe

Energy is one part of a much bigger play

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Dec 31, 2024
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At the end of 2021, as the world was still climbing out of the pandemic, and when Western intelligence warned of a Russian offensive against Ukraine as Moscow amassed troops on the Ukrainian border, a major shift occurred in global energy markets: the US became the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

The first time America exported LNG was in 2016 (from the lower 48 states), from a port in Louisiana to a buyer in Brazil. At that time, it was unclear whether the US would go from being a net buyer of energy to becoming a net exporter, upending how global energy markets function.


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