The Importance of US Oil Production Driving Foreign Policy

When the US becomes more energy secure which shale allowed it to, in this century, Europe usually pivots in some way east towards Russia. The United States went back to not complete self-sufficiency but significantly higher domestic production and with a capacity to export oil. It also had a profound impact on the state Russia that had dominated pretty much entirely the European gas market. And part of that story is obviously about the way that Russia behaved, but it's also about the ability of the United States in some sense to discipline European powers where energy is concerned through shale.