German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is in the Gulf, hoping to secure new partnerships with oil and gas-rich nations.
He met leaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar hoping to agree on how to meet nations’ energy needs since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Since the war, EU countries have had to cut back on energy and look for supplies elsewhere.
So how is gas shaping the politics of the region as the war in Ukraine goes on?
Presenter: Hazem Sika
Guests
Ulrich Brueckner, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University in Berlin.
Mahjoob Zweiri, Director of Gulf Studies Center at Qatar University.
Andreas Goldthau, Professor at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy.
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37 Comments
What embarrasing moment for GERMÁN people, begginig and noking doors like BIDEN did to the Arabians,, they deserved for been foolish European and liste what the USA said to them
if only we killed assad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
End of the day Russia has the cheapest gas….from abroad energy will skyrocket
When will these Germans ever talk about human rights when it comes to the Palestinians? They like to pick and chose their "human rights"
Yes, why puppet Shoz of Germany did not beg and ask a share of the Iraquiz oil, robbed and on going smuggled by his master USpublicServants-Racist-Hypocrite-European-Mafia-Politicians,,,to solve his Germany energy crisis?
TruthSetsUsFreeAlways… GodBlessUsMoreInTruthForever 🙏🙏🙏🕙🕙🕙🐬🐬🐬♥️♥️♥️
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🇷🇺 why you fight Russia again punishment🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
All of Europe and the Arab Gulf States support Israel's suffering and ethnic cleansing of the Palestineans from their historical lands.
The answer is no after all this wrothless bullshit !!
They're working hard to find energy they need for winter . Good fortune to be made in this rush.
I'd give them nothing. Simply because of the escalation for war with the USA and NATO. All those could have been avoided. With the leak of the Rand corp documents it goes without saying the USA had this planned for years.
Ukraine will no longer exist as a country & this is the biggest tragedy of the whole situation.
I see this: Russia wants Ukraine lands, Middle East wants to sell oil, US and Europe want to sell weapons. Its so orchestrated can't you see it.
Andreas be honest please….Putin has nothing to do with the self-sanctioning Germany and the rest of Europe .
The hype about a "Hard Winter" in line with Y2K type bogus fear is not going to be as effective as it was 22 years ago
Where are the sanctions on saudi arabia over the yemen invasion?🤣🤣
Hypocriy, Ego, Dumbness are the characteristics of European leaders !
Let's stop buying gas from invaders and buy it from slavers instead xD
The western world 101
Thank you! This was a very interesting segment on the changing energy market. We all hope for a peaceful solution with Russia!
All sides need to make an effort to stop the war in Ukraine!
Olaf visit is more US geopolitics than anything else, to try to pull MBS away from Putin. It will not save Germany from their winter demise, there is no infrastructure from Gulf like the Nordstream you can just switch on, it will take years to build the infrastructure from Gulf to Europe. And the Gulf states already stated they have no surplus capacity, they cannot simply increase production, more so at the levels sufficient to replace Russia supplies. Saudi is also aware EU is going Green and will need less oil, so he is not going to fall for Olaf or western tricks, MBS knows western leaders speaks with forked tongues. It is in Saudi interest to limit production, keep prices high and make as much money as possible. Make hay while the sun shines and EU is currently shining very bright.
US and NATO "human rights" are……
1) supply weapons and money to Ukrainians to prolong their proxy war with Russia until the last Ukrainian
2) US conduct 2000-3000 drone strikes per all over the world, state sponsored executions from the sky without trial. People blown up from balconies, at weddings, driving.
3) UN wanted to investigate US Iraq war crimes, US sanctioned the UN investigator, she could not travel 🙂 US told UN, UN has no jurisdiction over US soldiers and US citizens, they have immunity from UN investigations. UN dropped investigation. US leaders can lie about Iraq WMD in UN to world leaders, without consequences. UN cannot take action against US leaders lying about Iraq WMD, resulting in a million dead and 38 million refugees in US middle east wars.
Germany is the least hypocritical country on Earth the man from Doha is being unfair
How about picking up biden and throwing him in a room with Putin keeping the door closed until they resolve Ukraine issue.
Winter coming people will literally freeze to death as prices are already killing people.
The person who is representing Arab views very misinformed and self centered inmho.. German examples about hosting Olympics or France’s examples for Eiffel tower building are totally preposterous.. it happened a century ago do does it mean we should redo things because they once were okay in the passed.
Gulf and most of the fossil fuels exporter countries need to focus on the facts that the Chinese and the Russians are going to be irrelevant very shortly.
USA EU ( NATO ) are all that matters.
Game over.
No more playing all of the parties.
Germany new friends…. 🤔
Well said Maahjoob, this people are trickery changing goalpost and kicking cans. The very definition of dishonesty, immorality and lack of spirituality.
Heck with it
It is interesting how little Middle East journalists care about human rights for its own sake! Telling us the "West" has double standards is meaningless, as we know that already. Besides, it is ironic, as there are millions of refugees from the Middle East in Europe… now the EU is attempting to defend Ukraine, and the journalist misses that goal and millions of Ukrainians. If the idea is to say that the EU should care more about human rights, of say, the Palestinians, then DO make that statement, as it is TRUE and accurate. But to be upset with the Germans for standing up to Putin despite losing oil and gas is absurd. Time to support Germany, instead of attacking them… time to realize that the Middle East is also full of hypocrites.
Russia ❤❤
Yeah, at latest time German government looks for alternatives! Great Job! All energy rich countries have still partnered with new worldwide alliances , now comes germany all behind around the corner 👍because of complete deny since now, that germany ist in real big big trouble
This’s like asking; can people used to squelch their thirst by drinking river water be squelched by drinking well water???.
This "Green" Illusion in Germany will Not Work. We are 20 years behind….now we See that many other countries beside Europe had a much better roadmap with mixed Energy strategies
Neu Energie market is Garante supply gas uns oil ???? 😂😂😂😂😂
I think Middle East and Russian have good relations 😂😂😂😂😂
What you think about very series issue
What doing politation
why would the saudi's pump more oil? The more oil they pump, the less the cost of oil.
Sholtz like other stupid leaders are trying to fix without sucess the problem they created. They should be fired!
Pray for freeing holy land of Hejaz from Saudi tribe
The guy from Doha was absolutely correct. The so- called DEFENDERS AND PREACHERS of HUMAN RIGHTS, are and have been the main ABUSERS of human rights. They complain about human rights abuses in the Gulf but they were/ are the same people who denied OTHER COUNTRIES OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS. Now we are being PREACHED ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS.
Next time US will say don’t buy gas from Gulf 😅😅😅
When it comes to goods and well being of European specially WESTERN EUROPE (GREAT BRITAIN , GERMANY, FRANCE ITALY)humans right, terrorism , dictatorships and so on will be ignored