re: #111 Dangerman

imagine trying to sell that idea 1-5-7 years ago

“we shouldn’t get too dependent in case Russia decides to X”

sure there’s lots of possible X’s

but if russia had quickly won in a rout, good chance the oil would continue to flow

IIRC (though that’s always a debatable proposition), I have been hearing variations on this theme for years, wrt to European energy policy, and the usual responses were mostly along the lines of pooh-poohing the fears. Mostly on the theory that the Europeans were much too committed/invested in increasing/securing their (cheap and/or easily-available) energy supplies to the East, and/or that Russia was the too-dependent party: that they would never risk their precious petro-export sector by too much adventurism.