Western reports have to be taken with grain of salt; it was demonstrated that western journalists know exactly zero about the war and what you read is more wish

Western reports have to be taken with grain of salt; it was demonstrated that western journalists know exactly zero about the war and what you read is more wishful thinking than news. For example, there were reports of Russia running out of gas in march, and out of ammo in april, and our (I'm EU citizen, that's why "our") Ursula was talking about cannibalizing chips from wash machines. And yet, here we are, this all turned out to be nonsense. Same goes for "iranian" drones. Iran would have no idea how to start integrating them with russian C4ISR (note how the "mopeds" are observed by lancet drones); non-integrated drones would be OK for tactical, but not operational level of war-waging. Russia is closest thing to autarchy that you can find on this planet (US isn't even a player here, US deindustrialized itself in the name of cost cutting). The 2014 sanctions only helped in building such economy. Medicine is easy to clone, if you are not bothered with intellectual property (see also India) and they are net food exporter. Sure, some french cheese or wines could be missing, but they are not necessary for the war. But back to our topic: none of this means that buying energy is financing the war. It is there for conditioning western population to get used to more expensive energy (basic economic theory: the supply was cut, demand was preserved, the equilibrium moves). The oligarchs are going be laughing all the way to the bank. It is just surprising that someone with intelligence to be discussing on HN would be taking part of such conditioning, without realizing it.