What are the other avenues? The US Democrats were peddling the ban on the Russian gas for 10 years and now the capacity of the US LNG producers is good to cover the monthly European needs for 5 days. Qatar is lacking the ability to increase capacity and the Norwegian fields are losing output. Not to mention that the LNG is many time more expensive that the Russian pipeline gas.
Great input.
The Qatar pipeline is a disaster in the making by going through Syria. Syria is destroying Europe by allowing massive migration through its territory, when it used to be more of a gatekeeper. Syria can't be trusted.
The only real answer is for Norwegian output to increase as much as possible, while also fast-tracking LNG projects in the US and removing the restrictions and red tape around their operation.
Is it a great answer? No. But it can be done.