Quote (ofthevoid @ Mar 17 2023 07:02pm)
Sky high persistent inflation plaguing the western world, partially because of energy decoupling from Russia (in Europe) and somehow we are winning big time. This is the complete warped logic of the average neocon today that bled to be adopted by the mainstream masses. Europe doesn't actually benefit in any way, Europe's energy cost inputs have gone much higher, impairing Europe's competitiveness with the US or east Asia significantly for many years to come. It's a completely false equivalence that if they are worse off than we are somehow better off. Only caveat I would add is the US is better off as we gained even more influence and now Europe can purchase much more of our expensive LNG.
Energy costs are lower now than they were pre-invasion, so the effects were transitory.
Europe was able to end its dependency on Russian energy so it can't be weaponised against us again.
Plus, the stupid decision to go against nuclear energy in some countries has been reversed, along with stronger investment in renewables for the future.