> I cannot understate the impact of Russian Energy being cut off.
It's an interesting fact that Western Germany imported Russian gas since the early 1960s, throughout the cold war and in complete opposition to US interests. German Wikipedia has a nice overview: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_der_deutschen_Gasve...
A lot of people seem to be pushing some weird "anti-environmental" when the simple reality is that all energy costs
I cannot understate the impact of Russian Energy being cut off. Right now we're paying roughly twice as much than we used to for compressed natural gas brought via tanker ships from the us. I genuinely believe that the war in Ukraine is mostly about energy dependence on Russia and Ukraine losing its transfer fees through their old pipelines