In order to understand how the US has created this “artificial energy crisis” and why EU countries are supporting it, just look at this chart of the EUR/USD:

The EUR started tumbling down in May 2021. They need an excuse for the plummeting EUR, and even if it costs human lives in Ukraine, or leaves all Northern Europe without heat this winter, or it causes hundreds of companies in the EU to go bankrupt, or workers lose their jobs, they just don’t care. Everything is Russians fault (substitute “Russian” with “Jews” and you are reading a 1926 post… same argument, different scapegoat).
Meanwhile, the RUB that got affected initially by sanctions against Russia, recovered and it has increased a 26% its value respecting the USD. It looks pretty stable to me:
