EU is hesitating to join hands with U.S on banning Russia’s oil import as it depends mostly on Russia for fuel. Here Trevor Noah shares his thoughts on it in The Daily show.
Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, television host and political commentator. He began his career in 2002 by doing several hosting roles with the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Now, He is the host of the “Daily show” an American Satirical news program on comedy central. Noah was named as one of the 35 most powerful People in Newyork Media by The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 and 2018.
On Wednesday’s show, Trevor Noah talked about why the EU cannot join hands with the U.S on banning Russia’s energy Imports. He explained that the EU gets 40% of its gas and a quarter of its oil from Russia and that is why they couldn’t join hands with the U.S. This gives Russia an advantage and uses it to threaten Europe by cutting the gas supply.
But it’s a two-way street, he continued ” Sure Europe needs Russian oil, but Russia needs Europe money. I mean what else do they have to offer? It’s not like they are going to fund a War by selling cabbage soup.”
He added, ” So both the sides of the relationships are in a game of chicken and nobody knows who’s going to give” and told that both The U.Sand EU shouldn’t be here in the first place and Putin had shown a spotlight on this dependency of fossil fuels. He also talked about using Renewable ” If countries want to move to Renewable energy of safe nuclear power, they can no longer afford to make that like item number 1o on the agenda”. Finally, he concluded by saying, ” Because not only will the planet suffer, but you’ll find yourself constantly having to make deals with the devil.”
