LOL.. so you are saying that Europe will find replacement in the next couple of years.
Europe doesn't have to 100% replace, but to have alternative and not to rely so much on Russian gas. That would be step in the right direction.
What will they do until then? Maybe they will travel in donkey carts and heat their homes by burning firewood?
Same as we are doing now, and I don't see people traveling in donkey carts. And I don't see anything wrong in using firewood to heat your home, many people still do that in rural parts of my country.
It is Europe that is going to crumble, not Russia.
I kept listening that in while growing up in socialist Yugoslavia back in the 80s, how rotten capitalist west will crumble and we saw what happened.
Now the catch here is that Russians are used to a life of hardship and difficult economic conditions. But can the Europeans deal with such conditions?
That is true, Russians are used to dictators running and ruining their lives and unfortunately there's nothing they can do about it.