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Re:CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s en... by mrtksn on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @03:36PM (#32742153)
That's only because Russia is not a proper democracy. Europe is poor on energy, leaders couldn't have chosen to export energy to Russia and buy their produce because the reality doesn't allow that. Instead, they did the next best thing and invest in energy efficiency. EU is quite efficient on energy use, making dependence on Russia lower than what it could have been.

Many times the climate change is half of the story, the other half is that EU couldn't be lavish on energy use even if it wanted.

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Re:CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s en... by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @03:58PM (#32742437)
>That's only because Russia is not a proper democracy.

You're saying it as if that came as a complete surprise to the EU leaders and EU population, that Putin's Russia was not a "real" democracy. When the US and the Eastern Europe was warning for decades that Russia cannot be trusted. Yet Germany turned a blind eye.

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Re:CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s en... by mrtksn on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @04:02PM (#32742493)
> You're saying it as if that came as a complete surprise to the EU leaders and EU population, that Putin's Russia was not a "real" democracy. When the US and the Eastern Europe was warning for decades that Russia cannot be trusted. Yet Germany turned a blind eye.

No I don't say that at all, read my comment again. I clearly say that they made a mistake with that.

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