consultation with kyiv. there s pretty significant escalation in the last few hours as russia announced it s going to be cutting offer supplies of fuel, of oil, gas to poland and bulgaria, two european nations part of the coalition there. can i get your reaction to that? also, how important is it that europe wean itself off of russian fuel? in many ways, this isn t a surprise, because russia has done this before. they ve weaponized energy over the course of years. there s probably no better case than the case of ukraine. we ve prepared for it in the short-term and we re preparing for it in the longer term. in the short-term, we re surging supplies of oil and lng to our european allies and partners. we ve undertaken a release from our own reserves to ensure that
. live look at san diego this morning. very pretty. time to wake up there. you just heard state department spokesman ned price tell us the u.s. will help its european partners after russia cut off natural gas supplies to poland and bulgaria, a major escalation in the economic war between the kremlin and the west. the eu accused russia of blackmail and the international energy agency said moscow is trying to weaponize energy supplies. the polish and bulgarian prime ministers were defiant, insisting they wouldn t give in to russian pressure. the energy giant gasprom tried to justify the move saying poland and bulgaria had refused to pay in russian rubles as demanded by vladimir putin. european gas priced jumped 20%
1945. they were at the heart of the new nato back in 1949. and now in the post war, it would make sense that they were trying to build bridges as we all actually tried to with the new russian federation, with the fall of the wall. i think germany now is also struggling in how it s placed in the world. it is powerful, yet it is also fuelled in part by the russians. the russians are, in my mind, unbelievably tone deaf. they finished the discussion in europe about russian oil by embargoing bulgaria. that was tone deaf, because now the rest of europe is going to have to go that way. germany today is more and more all in. i think they starkly realize