Yes, definitely easier said than done. That said, you are absolutely correct that it'll be a heavy lift to find alternate supplies of many materials and items.

Yes, definitely easier said than done. That said, you are absolutely correct that it'll be a heavy lift to find alternate supplies of many materials and items. That makes it no less necessary. Germany had made apparently catastrophic reliance on Russian NatGas, and looked like a horrible winter. Yet they have extricated themselves within 10 months so much that even without that Russian supply, NatGas prices are actually falling going into winter. It is necessary.