I agree with Trump that NATO needed to wake up and dump Russia and strengthen NATO.
This mess Europe is going through as they disentangle from Russia will hopefully remind them that they were drifting too far left and that they need to increase defense spending and listen less to the anti-energy Greens.
A near-death winter scare that they survive, will be good for the West.
The impact is not limited to Europe.
The impact is enormous here too...and all over the world.
The democratic west cannot sustain the embargo. They are trying to figure out how to weasel out right now. In another couple of months, they’ll be overt in their pleading to Russia.
It goes back long before OrangeManBad, apparently Reagan warned Europe not to become dependent on Russian natural gas.
I know France at one time generated over half of their electricity from nuclear reactors.
"It's high time the Slavic race was in charge of Europe."
Putin is channeling Stalin, and probably delights in it.
Never forget that Russian political culture is still largely derived from the Mongol hordes who over-ran the region in the 13th century. They never really left.