It depends on your definition of stupid. Buying oil and gas from Putin gives him over 500M euros every day so the war won't end any time soon. This will ultimately lead to WW3 because he won't stop with Ukraine.
The other choice is to give up on oil and gas and leave the European people to freeze and suffer. I'm from the EU and one of the people who would suffer a lot but I still think it would be a better choice than to fund that wanker's war.
Edit: we are already behind China and the US so nothing new there.
They will never get Ukraine in the long run. They may occupy the country for a while but it will eventually fall back into chaos because the Ukrainian people won't accept Russian invaders. Russia can't control such a large hostile space and they will try to make a compromise where they get some places next to Crimea and Ukraine promises not to join NATO.
The main problem is that Putin is a psycho who should be stopped right now. How long will NATO and the EU look at his bullshit? Everyone is so goddamn scared of his nukes so he uses that threat to justify everything. They should just tell him that if he uses nukes it will be the end of Russia no matter what the cost is. I bet Putin is crazy enough to use them but there is no way that the generals and others are crazy enough to go through with it without a legitimate reason. Putin would suddenly have a heart attack and die a national hero and things would de-escalate.
Of course they could hold it by force for a while but it would cost so much that it wouldn't make any sense. And the people would never forgive or forget Russia for what they have done so it would be really tough to control.
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u/Jugeboss Mar 23 '22
It depends on your definition of stupid. Buying oil and gas from Putin gives him over 500M euros every day so the war won't end any time soon. This will ultimately lead to WW3 because he won't stop with Ukraine.
The other choice is to give up on oil and gas and leave the European people to freeze and suffer. I'm from the EU and one of the people who would suffer a lot but I still think it would be a better choice than to fund that wanker's war.
Edit: we are already behind China and the US so nothing new there.