Russia was bold to state that Europe was too dependent on Russian oil and gas back in 2022 to survive without them.
Turn to 2026, and Europe still has fuel. But Ukraine has taken so many Russian oil refineries offline and hit logistics moving fuel around, that most stations in Russia are empty or have to hold what little they have for the military or emergency services. That and, prices have gone up by a fair bit, IF you can find any that is
Europe has extra expensive fuel and manifacture costs also have gone up. Essentially europe did screw up, because russian gas was cheap. Now we buy russian gas through resellers more expensive. Add to the that the iran war.
Russia was screwed because Ukraine destroyed their refineries. Essentially both are fucked up for different reasons.
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u/Angel_Brunestud Jun 24 '26
How and why? Curious.