Quote from: Rikafip on Today at 05:41:10 AM

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.

It is already too late to think about that. EU had the opportunity to not only find the replacement but construct the very much needed infrastructure to reduce their reliance on only one supplier of energy. They didn't go for it. Now the alternative sources aren't supplying EU with the energy they so crave.

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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 not feasible. For starters almost all apartments don't have any place to burn firewood to heat it up and even if they did or alterations were made, there is not enough supply of firewood to meet even a small percentage of the demand.
Do you honestly think the 84 million Germans could warm themselves with firewood when temperature drops to -40 C?

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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.

All empires crumble eventually, Soviet Union fell, British Empire fell, ... and the Western one has been on a downward spiral for some time now.

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That is true, Russians are used to dictators running and ruining their lives and unfortunately there's nothing they can do about it, unlike Europeans.

I don't see Europeans or others that fall under the same Western bloc do anything about their dictatorships either. For example what did the French do over the past month about their dictator? Nothing. Dozens of people were murdered by the dictatorship to silence the protesters. What did Canadians, Americans, Australians, ... do about their dictatorships? Nothing. They all suppressed their people when they opposed the authoritarian regime's with an iron fist.