Not disagreeing at all, but there is another angle to it as well. Russia wages war with any country that attempts to serve as an alternate conduit of energy to

Not disagreeing at all, but there is another angle to it as well. Russia wages war with any country that attempts to serve as an alternate conduit of energy to Europe and break the Russian monopoly on energy sales there. Syria, Georgia, Ukraine all tried to serve as conduits of energy pipes from elsewhere. US wants to help the good guy, but also, if US doesn’t provide some energy alternatives to Europe, Putin will bend Europe over with high prices. Worse he has been using social media heavily since 2014 or so to break up the EU, so there would be no united negotiating front against him with sanctions.