There is enough Gas on the market, e.g. in the US and it`s 8 times(!) cheaper. The Problem is the infrastructure( LNG ports, etc ), which are being built. The Gas problem should disappear in year or so.
Oil - I don`t know the details, but it`s a smaller problem due to better infrastructure and...
Russia It`s not the heartland. It`s a semi-periphery( now more a periphery? ) to the center that is more/less a line coming from London to Milan.
Even, If you cut 5% of the GDP from the Center( now: Energy Crisis ) and 10% from the "Periphery"( now: Sanctions), the "Periphery" would still have...
Exactly it`s a one way ticket for RU. It is/will be tough for the EU, but will devastating to the Russian energy sector in the long run. I dont know what they are thinking, probably they don`t.
According to Russia, the sactions are good for them, right?
The inflation was growing already before...
They lost the WW I, The Polish-Soviet war, Politically lost the war with Finland, won WWII due to the help from the West with huge losses, lost the cold war... not very impressive...
Copium ?
Delivered Military help to Ukraine is < 10B USD. Commited is Much bigger. This only shows, that the Western help till now is relatively low.
btw. Polish furniture export last year was ~14.9B Euro. Mostly to Germany, probably you are sitting on one.
The Gas storage in EU is at 81,5% with a daily increase of 0.4%:
https://agsi.gie.eu/
With North Stream turn off, The TTF Gas futures increased today by 12%:
https://www.theice.com/products/27996665/Dutch-TTF-Gas-Futures/data?marketId=5429405
Gas is not sanctioned. These are counter Sanctions...
Usually on a Volunteer Firefighter picnic in a bigger village you can have more people.
If Hundert of Tausend of Millions are protesting, then it can have some Political difference. 2 Tausend, lol.
getting angry with Germany ? Hehe, it`s more like funny, that some German politicians still believe you can buy gas from Russia on normal terms. It seems to over, good.