“Truss is going to borrow 150 billion pounds to subsidize British consumer payments to Putin and other exporters.”
Russian energy imports are already banned into the UK. None of that money will go to Putin.
So atrocious has been Putin’s crime spree, that the wealthy Nations of the World are willing to pay a high price to defeat that aggression.
15 of Russia’s biggest trade partners last year (7 of the top ten), accounting for over 2/3rds of last year’s total imports and exports, are now levying sanctions on Russia.
It is understood that the total costs to transition off of Russian energy, and support Ukriane, will be hundreds of billions of euros - approaching a trillion. That includes these subsidies to European consumers and industries.
Bottom Line: Those costs have been approved and financed by the Governments of the West (including Japan, Korea and Australia).
Pro Tip: There must have been a solid case for effectiveness, to get a trillion dollar bill authorized.
You really don’t get it, do you? Natural gas was selling around $4 2/1/22. Since the sanctions it’s been over $9 and today is at $8. Truss will buy zero gas from Russia. She will be subsidizing to the tune of 150 bn pounds the bidding war against you and me for American gas. Does Putin care if India and Brazil are paying double what he had contracted with Germany for? Before Britain and the EU decided to buy as much of our inflated priced gas as Truss and others will throw borrowed billions at and to shiver.