The Oil Drum: Using NATO to fight peak gas?

As many of you have probably noticed, there has been an increasingly confrontational relationship between the West and Russia on the issue of gas deliveries to Europe. Over the past year, I have traced this increase in tensions not to Russia’s behaviour, but to a clear policy choice made by the UK and the USA to demonize others (continental Europe, for not liberalizing enough, and Russia, for supposedly being an unreliable partner) in the face of their abrupt switch from gas self-sufficiency (counting Canada in the case of the US) to gas importer.
Much more after the jump to The Oil Drum.