I disagree:

1) If you compare a drive down mountain valleys, Lower Austria, and/or Burgandland main streets from 1992 to 2022, the main difference you see has nothing to do with Russian gas. It is solar panels. They are ubiquitous now. A solar panel system and a heat pump means you can have your single family house in the country almost regardless of gas prices.

2) Russian gas isn't gone, we're just paying middle-men a shitton more for it while the war goes on, or better said, while the sanctions go on.

Not listening to the EU public who doesn't share the neoliberal hate for Russia and the sanctions the EU working class is paying for is leading to the rise - again - of far-right parties. AFD, LePen, Meloni, and closer to home, the resurgance of the FPO, who were outplayed 20 years ago by Schüssel. I think that trick won't work this time.

70,000 were in the streets not long ago in Prague demonstrating against sanctions. Every British Prime minister who pushes the neoliberal line against Russia gets swapped out faster than a pair of socks.

Putin is a dictator. He isn't going to be voted out of office. If Putin dies suddenly (a lot of people are suffering from defenstration lately in Russia) he'll most likely be replaced by someone MORE hawkish.

We're all going to become poorer until we realize that late stage capitalism exported from the US to the rest of the world - and the EU right now is the US's biggest target market - is not the way forward.

Social democracy a la Austria pre-Iraq war is the best way forward, IMHO.