Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Did Putin and the West underestimate Ukraine? | John Bolton" video.

  1.  @grumblewoof4721  They are not openly supporting Russia, well apart from the government of Hungary, but people will get angry because of the high energy prices and that could lead to protest movements around Europe, either way, it's highly unlikely that many if any of these European countries will want to buy oil and gas from Russia after this, all the trust has gone and Europeans will actively continue to look elseware for it's oil and gas whiles boosting renewable energy production long term. In any case, if we did as some countries suggested in the early days and stopped buying oil and gas from Russia, things could have escalated very fast in a negative way, even leading to war and at the end of the day, what was needed was to buy time to adapt. In any case, once European countries diversify away from Russian oil and gas enough, that's when Russia is very likely going to pay a high price because the hold out countries will likely get more onboard to punish Russia and at the end of the day, each country had its own exposure to Russia at different levels, I don't blame them for wanting to buy time but I do feel that the west should have got a lot tougher on Russia after they took over Crimea, the west, from the US, UK, EU did very little that amounted to a slap on the wrist for Russia, that's where the real mistake was which lead to Russia thinking it could take all of Ukraine because the west has been a soft touch on Russia for the last decade, so there is a lot of blame to go around.
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