Your points are valid but an over-riding concern is that countries will then move away from petro-products and Russia wants to sell petro-products - *lots* of petro-products.
So in the long run it is better for them to crush the AGW crowd if convenient and now is probably as convenient a time as will ever be.
We ought to help them.
Ahhhh.... you make a good point. And I think it makes sense that they are more focused on their short-term economic needs than any long-term “destroy the west” plans. Especially when Zero is doing so much of that latter for them.