There is no capacity elsewhere to replace Russian energy.
As for Russian brutality, what makes it special compared to let’s say, American brutality?:)
Your version of geopolitical consequences is not based on reality. Look what happens to the American influence in the world. Middle East, Africa, Latin America.
What are you going to do when USD is no lore a reserve currency and you are going to live on the international equivalent of $4000 a year?
“There is no capacity elsewhere to replace Russian energy.”
Not all of it overnight.
But much has already been replaced.
Russian oil and gas managers may have noticed that all the contracts and new investment go to their competitors. All of them.
It is just a matter of time.
The Russian government has proven itself to be evil, and untrustworthy with oil and gas supply, or revenue. They can’t be allowed to play with them anymore.
Russian energy will be/is being replaced as fast as physically possible, and cost is no object. The actions of the Putin regime are disgusting, and the free world will never accept them.
Ordinary Russians have no choice to replace their dictator in a fair election, so the whole country will have to be bled out to neutralize the threat that Putin’s government poses.