Exactly, think of all the billions that have been spent to subsidize renewable energy instead of building insulation, public transport, heat pumps, etc. The net balance would have been better (more energy saved than supply increased) and it would have shifted the mix from fossil to electricity more.

I don’t know for UK, but I’d reckon most of the commercial deficit in EU wrt USA is gas, not food.

More specifically he underestimated the preparation of Ukrainian soldiers, notably the fact that NATO instructors came to share their training and tactics and help to prepare for the next war. He was well aware of it though, he used that as an argument that Ukraine was about to join NATO.

This is what-if thinking. Right now the Russian are clearly showing disinterest in negotiating the end of the war, they are fully prepared to sacrifice more lives in order to gain territories, there is no reason to think they weren’t already at the start.

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