>Regulations in Europe are written by people that you would not otherwise trust to write a shopping list.
That doesn't sound like you think any regulation written by them is good.
>Russia's active policy was to increase the west's energy dependence on it so that it's less likely that the west would oppose Russian imperialism.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Russia's goals are just the same as Big Oil's. For instamce the Green Party in Germany tried to reduce that dependency but was hit by a massive campaing by the BILD newspaper. Its main investor KKR invests extensively in fossil fuels.
> A German environmental foundation that has been given more than £17m by Gazprom, the Russian energy giant, has been accused of being a “puppet” funded by Moscow to circumvent American sanctions on the final stretch of a controversial pipeline carrying Russian natural gas to Germany.
German politics is known for doing what environmental groups want. The stupidity part isn’t Russia but the lobbyists of the fossile energy companies who try to keep their profits from using oil and gas. Germany‘s dependency on Russian gas wasn’t because of Russian influence but because of industry demands for cheap gas.
Nobody demands expensive gas. Not even in a socialist dictatorship. Germany is unique in that they shut down domestic energy production in favour of importing from Russia, and this is after multiple warnings from the west.
In EU in 2022 19% of electricity came from natural gas [1].
Gas, like money, is fungible — you can use gas you don't use for heating for electricity production, and electricity is also fungible and transmissible, so you can transmit that to Germany from outside Germany.
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That doesn't sound like you think any regulation written by them is good.
>Russia's active policy was to increase the west's energy dependence on it so that it's less likely that the west would oppose Russian imperialism.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Russia's goals are just the same as Big Oil's. For instamce the Green Party in Germany tried to reduce that dependency but was hit by a massive campaing by the BILD newspaper. Its main investor KKR invests extensively in fossil fuels.