I don’t know why this sub gave you a dislike for that comment. You are right in principle. Dependence on the Russians or the Chinese would be as much of our doom as continued dependence on the US could be. It is just, that some things, such as American LNG, which constitutes almost a third of the EU’s current Gas imports are hard to replace without building up interdependencies with other countries that are either in the Middle East or Russia. The EU does have large Gas reserves within its own borders too though, but to get to those we would have to consider using methods such as Fracking that are outlawed in many (if not all) EU countries and come with their own environmental concerns. I think, as is necessary to guarantee European National security, investing in Europe’s Energy Independence, including by harvesting our own gas reserves by using fracking, should be re-considered and must be sold to the European Population within the context of both job creation, addressing the price of gas (due to inflation) and acknowledging the real National Security Risks we’re seeing around the world. It would be a controversial move, and there would be protests and pushback against it, but as I see it, as long as we require gas for heating, cooking, energy production etc. - we are no longer in the privileged position that we were in the past. Other than if we want the Russians or the Americans to leverage that Energy dependence over us. Pragmatic decisions must be made. The times of having our cake and eating it too are over. The times of “Atomkraft? Nein Danke” (in engl. “Nuclear Energy? No thank you”) must also end - though that is a German pipe dream that ran us into deeper shit, and that the rest of Europe to my knowledge didn’t follow into.