I’ll give you that: Europe desperately needs better leaders. But that is exactly the problem—the most powerful figures in the European Commission aren't even directly elected by the population. We are stuck with a technocracy that made us vulnerable, and now the common citizen is paying for it.

But don't mistake those bureaucratic failures for a '50-year popular choice' by the people. Up until 2022, we were fine with cheap gas. The mass push for solar only exploded in the last decade, and especially after the Ukraine invasion, simply because people couldn't afford their bills anymore. It was a financial forced-move, not an ideological one.

So, we are caught between an unelected leadership in Brussels that failed us and a US administration that—while you may call them 'crooks'—is strategically benefiting from this chaos. We get the energy inflation and the migrant crisis; the US gets the market dominance. You might hate the player, but you have to admit the US is winning the game at Europe’s expense.