This is beyond parody: VDL says that US LNG gas is "more affordable and better" than Russian gas in order to justify the unequal treaty she just signed Europe for, in which - among other concessions - she commits to buy $750 billion of US LNG over the next 3 years. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can understand that gas that comes directly from your next-door neighbor via pipeline is by definition much cheaper than gas that has to be liquefied, shipped thousands of miles across the Atlantic in specialized tankers, and then regasified in Europe. What you have here is a perfect illustration of the transatlantic relationship: EU elites lying to their own population in order to justify vassalization to the US, all as a consequence of making Russophobia the basis of all EU policy. The latter incidentally being a direct consequence of the US's decision to keep expanding NATO in Europe. From a US standpoint it's perfectly logical, it's good old "divide and conquer" and reaping the benefits. From the EU's standpoint they need to lie to make it look like it's a rational decision when the obvious truth is that they got played.