What these events have in common is the rising danger that the West's energy security will be ever-more at the mercy of foreign governments hostile to freedom and its friends.
More draining of the U.S. treasury to pay for so called friends in incompetent foreign countries, and the dismissal of a once powerful military defense, conceding to huge cuts in budgets to pay for the spongers, scroungers and freeloaders amongst the population who have no intentions of finding a job.