Your point on fuel supplies is correct. I’d advance that thought to add it’s just another example of hoping the alligator eats them last.
The Russians are not a military threat to the EU.
The Russian power over the EU is via those gas pipelines, not tanks or jets.
Thankfully the “lyin’ king” has admonished Putin and I’m sure Vlad is rethinking his options. Nah. Probably not so much. Probably more like ROTFLHAO. We know he thinks the “lyin’ king” is just a tres-gone like punk.
The protesters are anti-western liberal democracy. Russia is anti-western. Pretty simple.
I remember seeing “anti-war” protests in Holland during the Iraq invasion. The Dutch protesters marched practically past an American WW2 cemetery. The irony was totally lost on those pinkos.
We see political calculations in everything the left does. The enemy of my enemy is my friend they think. Thus, no protests when a KGB thug goes on a rampage.