Interesting. Not a single mention of the impact of foreign policy precipitating this potential energy crisis. Foreign policy cannot be untangled from domestic p

Interesting. Not a single mention of the impact of foreign policy precipitating this potential energy crisis. Foreign policy cannot be untangled from domestic policy. There is now this idea that the only reasonable thing to do was to completely cut off Russia from international trade, prior to the unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine. Why? Because that made you dependent on Russia and that's just ontologically bad. That's not a reasonable position to have. I mean people trade with China in spite of Tibet, the Uyghurs, Hong Kong and Tiananmen Square, Saudi Arabia in spite of providing material support to al-Qaeda (and being the country probably most responsible for 9/11), an unjustifable genocide in Yemen and Khashoggi or even the United States despite many sins that can reasonbly be listed. Trade in particular and engagement in general is the only reasonable path towards Russia or really any other power we may not like. The problem was that Germany and the US through NATO expected Putin to swallow something the US never would ie a hostile major power in your backyard. I mean the US almost started World War 3 when the USSR tried this in Cuba (after the US had already done it to Turkey). But instead people like the frame this debate as you should never have traded with Russia and/or to support the narrative that nuclear power is good.