It's more about Pilkington's longstanding right-wing anti-American, Russophilic bias; even as late as August he was trumpeting the Russian invasion of Ukraine a

It's more about Pilkington's longstanding right-wing anti-American, Russophilic bias; even as late as August he was trumpeting the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a stunning success and Russian weapons as qualitatively superior to US systems, even as Ukraine -- with a tiny portion of NATO's arsenal and a fraction of the average NATO soldier's training -- was already assaulting into Russian-occupied territory. So pushing energy doomerism (Putin's last card, short of the nuclear ladder, to play against Europe) and blaming Europe for Putin's decision to cut off energy supplies (and pipelines!) is just amplifying the Kremlin's message against the West, something that Pilkington seems very happy to do.