Governments do know what they needed to do: mostly, they needed the EU to have begun reducing its dependence on Russian natural gas years ago, whilst instead th

Governments do know what they needed to do: mostly, they needed the EU to have begun reducing its dependence on Russian natural gas years ago, whilst instead they increased it. (The UK isn't particularly dependendent on fossil fuels from Russia directly but buys from the same global markets as the countries which are.) This is not particularly popular to talk about, especially given who was pushing for them to do that at the time and what the European reaction was...