Given time industry would adapt, but the impact can be devastating in the short term. EU gas dependence was and still is a big factor in the annexation of Crime

Given time industry would adapt, but the impact can be devastating in the short term. EU gas dependence was and still is a big factor in the annexation of Crimea and politics across the region. The BBC reports that this dependence is still growing, further tying the hands of the EU against Russian aggression. Now if Russia itself was just another western style free market democracy, dependence wouldn’t be such a national security risk.