> EU will continue for now, but there's a significant push to move away from Russian gas in many European countries in the next year or two. the question is if

> EU will continue for now, but there's a significant push to move away from Russian gas in many European countries in the next year or two. the question is if those countries will have strong commitment to invest into significant and non-trivial infrastructure rebuild, or it will be just speeches from politicians. > Russia takes over all of Ukraine I don't think this was ever goal of Russia. I think they wanted to occupy some southern and eastern regions, force Ukraine to recognize Russian Crimea and set some puppet government in Kyiv. I believe Ukraine and Russia will reach some agreement soon, Ukraine will likely lose some territory and political independence, and in 3 years Europeans will mostly forget about this stuff, will be destructed by other issues and continue buying Russian oil and gas.