@cjd I agree with several points of your statement.
The US wants to make Europe an obedient puppy and Russia wants to run europe into a wall.
I think we have to make Russia lose the war in the Ukraine very hard to stop their meddling in our elections. To stop trying to influence the Population in the western world and for that reason alone Putin has to die painfully so noone else wants to have that point.
I also think that we should push that russia falls apart after the war.
I do not think that everyone wants to pick each others pocket with the decarbonisation.
That is the thing europe can proof - that your country does not fall apart and that a industry has to run on hydrocarbons. In the Steel production coal can be replaced by Hydrogen and the same is in the potash production for concrete.
I am working in a company that plays an important role to change that for Europe. The probably most important outcome of that is that we have a chance to prove that it works. We can decarbonize the vast mayority of the industry and society, even without nuclear power.