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As someone from Germany, the protests and such are quite over-exaggerated. Most Germans, by a wide margin, still support Ukraine. Also, Gas prices have recently been falling like crazy cause all the gas storage facilities are full. And current temperatures in Germany are suprisingly warm, so that alleviates some of the problem to.

As a Norwegian, when Johnny said; “Spoiler alert, in the short term, Qatar is gonna get way rich off of all of this.” I was like … oh okey, I guess we’re not addressing the moose in the room. 😬

Historically, winter has always been a defensive weapon. Not a big stretch to turn it the other way.

I work for a Utility Management company in the UK, and it’s been both scary and interesting to see all the changes happening with the Utility Suppliers energy rates and service levels.

One of the great things about these videos is that the comment section is super informative. People are correcting some errors and adding a lot of background and extra information to the topic. Great video.

"Trick up his sleeve" Except it's been known about and discussed extensively by scientists and engineers in multiple fields for years and Europe has been frequently been warned and told off for not switching to their own, cleaner energy sources. Is it an easy switch? Absolutely not. But it's been known for years.

Absolutely been binging your content tonight after discovering you - The quality of both your insights and of your production value is incredible!

Czech republic here. Many households (ourselves included) lowered the indoor temperature and are now saving energy. It's 40F outside, but so far I didn't turned on the heating. Getting colder inside, but better than having Putin at the door and fighting for our lives.

Kinda surprised that you didn't mention the subsea explosions that ripped holes in the Nord Stream pipelines, just outside the danish border.

As a European watching this video, I find it quite interesting to see how people outside of the EU view this conflict while still keeping it very informing to me. Thank you very much for the hard work you put in every video. Keep going!

I am really obsessed with your videos. The information covering, visuals and audio being used comprise of masterpiece videos. Congrats Johnny for this excellence!!

Greetings from Northern Germany! Two things I wanted to share from my perspective: As to Germany's energy market and why it is super tricky: The problem why Germany's electricity prices skyrocket is that we have a super weird system: We use the "Merit-Order" System. Within the Merit-Order System the most expensive energy plant running at that time determines the price for electricity at that moment. Super confusing, I know. For example: If during the day coal powerplant-energy is the most expensive, all prices on our energy market rise. The cheaper prices, that produce energy during the day, like solar, also become more expensive. And now we have the situation that energy from natural gas becomes super expensive. Natural gas makes up 'only' around 20% of our energy market. Most energy sources would be much much cheaper. BUT since the prices of our energy market are always linked to the most expensive energy source - ALL our energy prices skyrocket. Even my "super sustainable green energy" coming from windparks and solar. Sorry for the long text. I thought this might be interesting to know in case US energy markets work differently. As to the protesters: It's mostly people who fell for disinformation, who go and demonstrate in Germany. It's especially stunning that it's both far left and far right movements who organize these protests. Both presenting the same or similar arguments. It is by now partly revealed that Russia was investing in both extreme sides (left and right) to destabilize Germany's political situation. 'Regular' people mostly unterstand what is going on. At the same time of course many, especially poorer people, really suffer from the ongoing inflation. But they usually do not join the left and right wing protests and support Ukraine's independence. Thanks for reading and thank you for this video! It's always super interesting to see how things that happen around here are seen and perceived from other countries :)

You forgot a very important point, gas storage is full in the EU and this means there is enough gas for the winter. In response gas prices are falling as demand starts to REDUCE so Putin's strategy massively backfired and the gas and energy markets start to stabilize ( even if at a much higher price )

Fun fact: Iceland has its own 100% renewable thermoelectric power and is not relying on any other country to import oil or gases. And Iceland also uses hot water from the geological hot spots to heat houses instead of using electricity or gas.

You havent mentioned the pipeline that was sabotaged by setting explosives to it near Denmark. There are SO many conspiracies about this one hope you will make a follow up :D

You get it. It's refreshing to watch a vid that glances on the importance of petrochemicals 💪🏼

It wouldn’t be a Johnny Harris video without him waving around some printed documents ❤

I feel like you glossed over that we've recently filled most of the EU's gas storage and that gas was for a short time traded at ZERO cost to move it around within the EU. Edit: Of course this doesn't mean we are safe from gas shortages by ANY stretch. Our storage was never built to last for months on end - We never expected it to cause we had a stable supply going in.

Now that I think about it, everyone here (NL) complains about the high gas prices but I haven't heard anyone say we should just lift the sanctions.

Great video. Thanks for giving such views on this conflict. I've been using your videos in my conversation classes and my stds are really enjoying your content.

15:30 the protests I've seen aren't so much about the sanctions against Russia, in fact the vast majority of europeans are in favour of them. The issue is that, at the same time, you've got oil and gas companies taking advantage of the situtation to raise prices to exhorbitant amounts, while at the same time making record-breaking profits. People don't want to have to pay high prices for gas and petrol, if it's to line the pockets of BP, Shell or Total shareholders.

Johnny single handedly destroying the Amazon printing stuff

Thanks!! I love your content. I keep waiting for a new video every day. You are awesome. Continue the great work you are doing.

I’m a German and I think this winter will not be a big issue for Germany and Europe. The challenge is to get the gas storage facilities full for the winter 2023-24. I also think showing the protests must be balanced out with mentioning that many Germans stand behind Ukraine and are not demonstrating or questioning our political course. I'm proud to do my little part in defending democracy. Great video Johnny! Keept it on

You really need to mention that Europe has responded very well in building their reserves, which is a game changer. Ukraine and Europe are proving to be very resilient in all of this. Putin is losing mostly because every time he escalates the European public escalates their support for Ukraine. Might we worthwhile to investigate that mechanism.

Great video Johnny! But I couldn't help but laugh at how when your friends went in the store to scoop out the heater thing, they both were wearing short sleeve shirts and there were people on the streets in shorts and such! Lol!

Sup bro - your content is great. big up to you and your team. That is all

Great video, loved to see your take on this!

Hey Johnny, I noticed that you didn't really touch on the unique crisis in the UK, I'm a Canadian who just moved to Europe and the prices over here are crazy! However only some of the problems we are facing are because of the energy crisis in Russia. A lot of the gas companies here have seen record profits since the war at the direct expense of the people, supported by an insane government! Just thought it would be a good idea for another video!! Love your stories keep up the good work!!

The goodness in their hearts. Thanks, I've finally heard it in your language.

Newer to the channel. Have been almost binge watching all the videos. Great work. Highly entertaining, insightful, and intriguing content.

As a European it makes me disgusted to think we are even entertaining the thought that we should stop the support to Ukraine because our energy prices have soared and made life a bit more difficult. The problem with this is that it can not even begin to compare to what the Ukrainian population is experiencing, and here we are pitying ourselves. It is beyond belief, and I hope that we can all pull together and make our way through to the other side. A lot of Europeans laughed at and were grossed out by the Trump administration and thus America's "America First" sentiment, well look at us now..

As someone from Russia I agree with everything you say. The one thing that frightens me is that Putin really can't loose, he has never ever admitted his mistakes. Btw I see you and your channel for the first time but already subscribed. Content of quality, really

Invaluable information, thank you for your content.

Thank you for clearly linking the manipulation of gas supplies with cost increases and inflation. It seems to me to be an important aspect if our current economic situation that goes unexplained on a lot of news outlets 🙏

Yep, the transition to renewable energy is something that even in Portugal we are already feeling it. Particularly in solar (not photovoltaic) to warm up water that used to be heated with gas. I know that we are, in terms of using solar energy, one of the dumbest countries in the world but at least this is making us move forward and in a very short future maybe we can do what we should have done decades ago with solar and photovoltaic panels. Putin just made the world a more expensive and dangerous place and at the same time.... greener. Life is strange.

congrats on three million subscribers! thanks for all the engaging well researched topics you cover!

Man words can’t explain how much I love your videos. Keep it up man

Your videos are so informative I love them!

The title we voted for. It’s nice to know Johnny is including us in his process of publication of the video. Thanks Johnny, G.O.A.T.

I live in Sweden and i am paying 2.5x for my energy bill. Petrol prices are almost 40% higher and so are my grocery bills. I think we can survive this year but if this gets dragged until next year we are in trouble. I work in Ikea and they have already started doing hiring freeze, cost cuts and giving pink slips to employees. So yeah whether we like it or not this is affecting us. Recession is here!

As usual nice job johnny, the way your videos is just mind boggling 💯, and informative, hatsoff to editing and especially music part.

Dude your content and videos are so damn good. Thank you. I hope you're doing well

I think most of my friends here in Amsterdam would prefer sleeping with twelve blankets than giving in to Putin

I'm from Czech Republic. This year's winter will still be somewhat manageable, the worrying thing is, what about next year's winter.

I live in Europe, my energy company has been offering to send people electric blankets because there will be no gas this winter

Love every video you guys create. Keep them coming

German here. One very important thing most people don´t think about: There are a lot of really big machines, for example for making glas, which use gas but CAN NOT stand still. If the gas supply stops, these machines cool down and cooling down means they just break. They HAVE to run 24/7 or we loose these machines and with them the whole industry around them. And you know, big machines are expensive and need years, if not decades to replace.

In the UK at least, most of the pushback to rising energy costs has been calls to invest in 'home-grown' renewables, not to stop the war in Ukraine. People are also really against fracking or new oil drilling in the North Sea.

Over a year later, nothing has changed.

Can you make an updated version of this? You present all of the moving pieces very clearly and it would be great to hear an update. This is in my opinion very unbiased information that as a society we need more of! Love your chanel and videos! Also, your story is amazing, would also love to hear an update on your journey outside of the church!

Johnny, as an IR nerd to an IR nerd have a book to offer regarding this topic. "The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas" by Agnia Grigas. US, Europe, Caucus countires, China and of course Russia, it reflects of how everyone playing in this field of politics ans how it got important as never before and how long it actually was building up to this day. Super great read!

I work in this large industrial plant site in Ludwigshafen (BASF) and many plants don't operate at maximum capacity because so much natural Gas is needed. Some are even shut down because they aren't lucrative enough with these prices

You make great content Johnny, Thank you!

"i just really like colour flags" 🤣🤣🤣 i've only just found you today, but you're quickly becoming one of my favs (also because the whole "im gonna share with you what fascinated me this week and sent me down a rabbit hole" is like, my dream job)

As a European, I think it is important to mention another HUGE play from Putin which also was a crucial part of his blackmail plan, being that he openly funded populist and far right/left parties in Europe (provided loans to Rassemblement National and France Insoumise in France, Fratelli d'Italia in Italy, etc) in order to bolster the feeling that the comfort of European houseolds should be prioritised over the survival of Ukraine. These parties play huge roles in dividing the European response and in organising and running protests against the sanctions, in an obvious attempt to pressure goverments and the EU as a whole to stop supporting Ukraine. This move is probably one his smartest, a modern rendition of the british 'divide to rule' doctrine.

I am glad as a Norwegian to help out Europe with our gas, we hurt just as much from this as our power is super expensive too

I love the way u edit these videos 👌👌

This final note gave me the chills, no pun intended 😬

Great job, Johnny. I have told so many people about your channel, and your content just keeps getting better and better.

I'm really struggling with anxiety today and this video is providing a lot of relief from my own struggles. Thank you Johnny.

Johnny I am a dedicated fan of your channel. I adore your style of story telling. Lots of love brother. Keep making these great videos.

You are a literal genius for calling it a proxy war

Man can we take a moment to appreciate the amount of amazing work people have put into finding these alternative energy sources over the short term and coming up with amazing (more complex than we often realise) ways of supplying all of these goods and infrastructure

Don't underestimate the blow on the lower class. I worked in a call center for a Dutch energy company during this crisis. Household energy is an entirely privatized market sadly. Our monthly deposits for energy are higher than rent or mortgage sometimes. I left the company a few weeks ago because I couldn't take it anymore. The devastation, the uncontrollable crying, the fear. I spoke to dozens of people every day that couldn't make ends meet anymore with their new tariffs. Many households get cut off from energy by the grid companies as a form of punishment for not making ends meet with the supplier. You want to have your energy back? That's another couple thousand euro's. Even some relatively well off people got deeply indebted. Some people even told me that they have trouble buying food. And this is in The Netherlands, where the internet seems to think everything is running smoothly.

Another great video, great job Johnny Harris team. I'm surprised you didn't link this with China's cobalt mining in Africa and the fact that as we transition energy usage the world's focus changes.

Just came across your content..WOW! Your videos are so good. Thanks for the killer content!

Great content. Editing and all makes it very enjoyable to watch and learn

I love this channel so much. My absolute favourite. Your knowledge and enthusiasm for what you do is amazing and inspires me to do research of my own!

You deserve way more recognition! Honestly you have become one of my top KZfaqrs. Excellent delivery and amazing research. Thank you for your material.

Omg man! I love your content. All of it! Even if it's a subject that I'm not particularly keen on, I truly believe that you are reporting it fair and balanced, truthful, and unbiased. Keep up the good work! I'll continue to support you and hope your content grows as even I will share it with friends, family, and colleagues. Believe it or not, there are boatloads of people that do not even have an inkling of an idea of how the world works and the real play behind the curtains.

Civilization has become so smothered by the luxuries that energy gives them that they're willing to tolerate injustice for it.

As someone from Denmark, I’m so not concerned about freezing this winter. Our home insulation standards are so good that you almost get cooked in the summer. For me, it just means I’ll have to run around in warm clothes instead of a T-shirt, oh no.

Godbless Johnny! all this information for free in a convenient and entertaining form!🙏

Excellent coverage! Amazing storytelling Mr Harris 🫡🫡

1:51 the United States hasn't declared war since WW2 and called the Korean War, Vietnam, the Gulf War and the War in Afghanistan military interventions, no different than Russia.

Man I tell ya this channel is literally 1000% better then any news channel that exist, once I click on one of your videos I cant stop watching until the very end. Thank you for everything you do my friend.

Watching your videos from Canada. I discovered your contents last week and I've learn a lot more about what's going on in the world in such a short time. Keep up the good work ! Love !!!

I love the videos. Our politics definitely don't all align, but I do honestly appreciate your take on things and quality of your stories. Keep up the good work guys.

Keep these uploads! This been my fav channel for a long time

Very informative video, great work! And congratulations Johnny & team on reaching 3M subscribers!

We need part 2. Thanks.

Your videos are amazing my guy. Thank you

Good video as always. From a European, things look bad, for sure but I'm more afraid of the elections in most European countries than Russia itself. As you said, people will get desperate and things could go bad if the wrong leaders get into power. And trust me, they are, like wolfs, waiting to attack and grab power. I can't even imagine what another full-scale war would look like in Europe in the 21 century.

You didn't mention about the pipelines (NS1, NS2) supposedly suffered some explosions and huge gas leaks were noticed (even though, they were off) & they will probably be out of order, for quite some time, even if relations with Russia get fixed. One commentary said that if salt water entered the pipes, it will really damage them.. Some news outlets blame it on Russia, doing self sabotage.. but those pipes meant years of work + mld. of $ to build .. where is the sense in doing self sabotage?

Johnny, your videos are amazing! Happy New year from Uruguay . Keep it up!!!! BTW have you ever investigated the HAAARP facility in Alaska? Thank you!

Mannn jus found ur channel. Great great work enjoying all the videos great job

14:32 That plan might work in the short term, but as mentioned later on, for the people who actually understand the problem, this means far more people will be looking at alternatives, but what makes it worse is that no country is going to rely on it the way Europe once did, because they could decide to rug pull at any moment, so like the war itself this just seems like economic suicide.

European winters are usually not that bad. I've been barely heating my flat during winter for the last couple years and it was fine. I hope people don't go protest before simply trying to put on some cuddly clothes and finding someone to cuddle with.

and then warmest winter saves the day

it's really interesting watching while we are having this ultra soft/warm winter.

i live in Germany and boyyyy is that true. It's not just electric heaters, its also lots and lots of wood stoves and the wood needed to use them. We had installed our wood stove about a year before the war started and had stocked up on wood as well, but now that we've got the energy crisis everyone is trying to do the same and it has gotten difficult in some places to actually find wood. The only "luck" we've had so far is that due to climate change october has been unusally warm. Which is... well. Germany has invested in biofuels the past decade but since food prices are also rising it's somewhat unlikely that we will see a rise in acreage for biofuel production. Solar panels have gotten popular for new homeowners and are typically installed on newly built homes, but the taxes and fees make them almost not worth it, so they are not utilized by more people. We have wind mills and they cover about 24% of our electricity needs (according to about three quickly googled articles), but they were supposed to cover more and Germany is far too slow in the expansion of renewables. Oh and nuclear energy is very much hated by the general public (meanwhile our neighbour france has plenty of nuclear power plants). Right now big stores are turning off their lights after closing time and also do not run as many escalators as usual and at my university all students received an email with instructions on how to keep energy use low. I wouldn't say there is panic but everyone is slowly and calmly approaching the whole thing (including slowly stocking up your pantry, came across a few articles mentioning how being a prepper is no longer smth that 'crazy' people do). So all in all? Really depends on good management.

Europe refused Russian gas, so Putin cut off gas to Europe. What?

I live in Germany, actually I live right next door to that big chemical plant, it's called the BASF. I haven't noticed any panic. But I can also say that normally by this time in the year you can turn your heater on in the apartment but we still don't have heat. It's not so Bad yet cause it's not that cold.

Nice Explanation :)

As a Ukrainian, I am so grateful all of the countries which support us. ❤🇺🇦 And thank you, Johnny for all videos about Ukraine and War. It’s important to explain people what is actually happening.

USA doing DOLLAR Blackmail to like 100+ countries.

Extremly good content and very good explaining for those who hasn't that much background information before the documentary. 👍

Anyone know where that map in the background can be purchased?? Also Johnny, if you even see this, how have you NOT been sponsored by wherever you get these map prints from??? I’d buy them in a heartbeat.