A moment ago was said by you five years now is up to a decade?
oh well ... guess people should give up and die ... that is one heck of a plan, ya got there ... LOL
5 years would be an insanely overpriced but possibly technically feasible.
What the industry would call a fast paced and maybe only double cost could be done in a decade.
They don’t need to give up, but if they want to plan going forward, it ought to be a plan with a possible outcome.
You can walk from New York to California, with a lot of effort and determination. Believing you can do that walk in 24 hours is just insanity.
Push hard, always strive for more, but live in reality. Part of that reality is, Russia can not operate as it is without selling most of that gas, and they don’t have another way to delivery anywhere else in that same time frame.
Russia can make it difficult and put pressure on the EU, to be applied then to the Ukraine. But they could not function, as they are, without most of that cash flow.
Notice my qualifier, as they are. They might choose some even less desirable options.
They need to get cracking then!