@PaperTyger
The bottom line is we should not be by using Kremlin gas fund bomb's being dropped on your home's.
Merkel? Where is Merkel to explain herself And her strategies these past year's??
He can say all he likes About opening home's etc but that is this bottom line.
Easier said than done, Nuclear is not without risk, look at how Russia has targeted nuclear power stations? storage of waste - still not safely resolved, with burying it for future generations to sort out.....
Or we buy gas from ME countries, with some v awful HR records.
Germany has already cut gas imports from 55% to 40%, it'll be 30% in 9 months time, Germany is also a far more industrialised country than the UK, it needs the energy only fossil fuels can bring, it also doesn't have NS gas and oil fields.
Do you also think we should stop buying Russian grain, rare metals to use in EV's
You are also crediting Merkel with the ability to see decades into the future, every country in Europe and beyond was trading with Russia, in the belief that countries that trade together tend not to go to war with one another.
We also allowed Putin to influence/fund our politics & referendums, gave citizenship to his agents.
Putin felt able to invade Ukraine because of the lack of action over first Georgia, then Crimea, even shooting down a passenger airliner, did nothing when he used radioactive and nerve agents to murder on our own soil... we all gave him the green light and are all responsible.