Sometimes even Elon Musk and I can see the same problem from slightly different angles.

In a recent post, Elon pointed out that the chaos after the COVID-19 pandemic created a window that Putin exploited to invade Ukraine. He called it “the revolution that started the Russia-Ukraine war.” You can read his tweet here.

I don’t disagree. The pandemic did weaken the West significantly.

But there’s a deeper, more embarrassing reason Europe became so vulnerable: our own disastrous energy policy.

For years we shut down perfectly functioning nuclear power plants in the name of green ideology, only to make ourselves heavily dependent on Russian gas. We literally handed Putin a strategic weapon on a silver platter.

I wrote about this already back in April 2026, well before it became a hot topic:

→ Energy Policy, Russia, and the High Price of Ideology

The pandemic may have been the trigger. But our energy policy was the loaded gun.

It’s never comfortable to admit that we helped create the conditions for war through ideology and wishful thinking — but sometimes the truth is uncomfortable.

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