Some ideas to evaluate, in no particular order. Some are (close to mainstream), others elephant's shit:

- accelerated LNG terminal buildouts (butchering Nordstream 2 and making it a terminal at the coast, ...)

- EU level natural gas purchasing

- carrots for lowering per capita energy consumption: insulation, contests, subsidies, ...

- temporary ban on use of cars with >= 3l engines

- 100 km/h EU wide maximum speed limit

- no private jet traffic except for medical emergencies

- temporarily extend/unmothball coal and nuclear electricity plants - temporary regulatory relaxation on wood harvesting for heating purposes

- 24/7 production at any and every solar panel, wind turbine, insulation and heat pump manufacturer - faster rollout of planned (hvdc) interconnects - EU wide helicopter money for paying energy bills or lowering them: per capita, differentiated by climate zone

- (possibly) concentrate large solar and green hydrogen projects in southern EU (higher immediate returns)

- intensive direct wage support for employees in temporarily loss-leading energy intensive sectors

- ..._

Must be fun looking in at all this from the sidelines.

We sent our soldiers to every shithole america decided to "bring democracy to", but now, ukraine has become so important, that we are willing to destroy our own economy and "passively fight" until the "last dead ukranian", to achieve what exactly?

it is often forgotten that this is exactly what the US did for the first 2-3 years of the war. Germany swallowed up the wealth of Europe. Britain had already swallowed up the wealth of a quarter of the world. the US swallowed up both of their wealth and ended the war with 2/3 of the world's gold

this is a simplification, but it's also huge overarching story of WW2 that is often missed. people know the US and Russia became the world's two superpowers, but there's very little attention paid as to how the US came to be one of them