>>45225
I'm fairly sure not Gazprom manipulated the EU into a energy crisis. They even use evil Putin to show how he exploit innocent Europeans when they are vulnerable when he tries to peddle more gas to then on increased price.
It is also not a coincidence that large Euro corpos going into directions like Rheinmetall does >>45087 A whole industry is getting built on non-fossil basis, they need to sell their shit somewhere, what is better for starter as the big unified inner market of the EU?
But for this people need to be intimidated ("climate change will kill us"), then pressured (high gas prices), then offered a way out of both ("buy our solar panels").
Fun part is due to subsidies the whole going green is very attractive, since it promises less cost. But in a few years, when we have more people using solar panels at their homes, the income from gas consumers will fall, and this will leave a huge gap in the income of the utility companies and tax of the state. So they'll change tactics and reap what they saw, rising prices (including tax) will fill the hole. And this will even better since EU will depend less on natural gas Russia is offering, and the EU can stuff its own companies with the monies which went to Russia up until then. They're planning to go full fossil independent in the next decade, which means no need for gas from Russia anymore.