(When considering gas shipped through pipelines as well, the US is the bloc’s second-largest gas supplier after neighbor Norway — a serious coup for the North American nation that only began exporting its shale gas in 2016)

Europe avoided a crippling gas shortage in 2022 and 2023 “Putin calculated that he could use the gas weapon to shatter the coalition supporting Ukraine,” energy historian Daniel Yergin told me recently. “It failed largely because of LNG” And that LNG is US LNG