Because the media is **** and doesn't do its job. They're covering the energy hikes, but they're not asking about and exploring the obvious issue. Why is Europe so dependent on Russian energy? Obviously, a part of it is the development of the Russian oil and gas industry and the attempt to incorporate Russia into the West after the fall of the Soviet Union. Because of proximity, Europe was an obvious trading partner.
However, Europe also shutdown many domestic energy sources for environmental reasons on the promise of the big transition to renewables. The plan wasn't Russian energy. It was solar and wind. The mere need for Russian energy should have been a red flag. After all, you don't save the environment burning Russian oil rather than North Sea oil.
In addition, even if they missed that big red flag, why didn't anyone at least tap the brakes back in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea? We're scrambling to get other energy sources now, but that takes too long to get any relief anytime soon. However, what if they had put the brakes on the idiocy in 2014 when it became clear that Putin was interested in territorial expansion and therefore a threat? True, we can't develop new energy sources in six months like we're trying to now, but we could have in six years. Why didn't anyone? Those kinds of issues should be major stories. They aren't, because they're politically inconvenient.
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