'We must cut Russian fossil fuel imports and change our energy use, to combat both the cost of living crisis and the global climate crisis.'
Three months into the Kremlin's war against Ukraine, European politicians and officials are working out plans to reduce fossil fuel imports from Russia to zero.to end Russian gas imports by 2027. Climate campaign groups say it can be done much sooner.
Ukraine's army, actively supported by millions of its civilians, is defending territory from a Russian invasion that had the declared aim—now being scaled back—of dismembering and subjugating Ukraine. The Kremlin's justification for the invasion is that Ukraine, Russia's oldest colony, does not deserve to be an independent country.
The measures aimed at Russian oil and gas exports are relatively limited so far. Heavy sanctions have been imposed on many of Russia's largest financial institutions; its access to the SWIFT payment system has been limited; and hundreds of billions of dollars, kept by Russia's Central Bank in foreign accounts to support the ruble, have been frozen.
What about Western politicians who talk about subjugating Russia? Yes, they do talk, but they do not play a decisive role in shaping relations between Russia and the big Western powers. Over the last two decades, President Vladimir Putin has sought to compensate for Russia's economic weakness with military aggression—in Chechnya , Georgia and Syria .
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