Would you be fine with it if you were on the margin?
I have this same attitude about inflation in the US and rising interest rates. Good - we need to get the situation under control. But I'm not living on the margin. It affects me, but not really. I'll be fine. So I don't really have any skin in the game here. Not yet.
Not everyone agrees on what patriotism means or what actions are patriotic or good for the nation. Tolerating a few abstract points off your GDP because people you don't like voted your country out of the EU easy enough so people put up with it. You are not going to get a nation to put up with serious hardship like what the energy situation is shaping up to do unless everyone is on the same page about what the end goal is.
Would you rather be colder in the winter for a couple years or live in a warzone and have your family killed and culture destroyed?
1. Party Z invades Country U. 2. Continent C denounces the invasion of U and sanctions Z. 3. Z retaliates against C.
Does an act of retaliation (weaponizing Gas) from Z towards C count a declaration of war? Because if not, who exactly did Russia declare war on? Europe is many things, most prominently a continent and an idea. Was Germany declared war on? If not, is it reasonable to assume that Germany will be declared war on, and if so, which escalations from which involved party would lead to that?
(As always, I don't have strong opinions, just trying to make up my mind on what to expect/how to read the situation)
Not before first weakening and fracturing NATO.
Brexit split England off the EU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...). Trump expressed strong doubts about staying in NATO (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-presiden...) and was at the very least sympathetic towards Putin at times (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44852812). These are opening salvos.
In many ways the EU and Russia are at War. It's just not a shooting War
I still see people saying Russia cant cut off gas, or demand payments in rubles because some contract doesn't allow it. Those contracts went out the window a long time ago.
As for inflation control, in mamy ways the whole point of that is to punish those at the margin, who might otherwise gain at the expense of those with large assets.
If you're about to say, what about the poor pensioners on a fixed income, see my first paragraph.
Which is a really callus and harsh position to take.
The alternative question, the one which should be being handled right now though is what % of people need support, and how do you help without worsening the problem? How quickly can you install solar, batteries and air-sourced heat pumps? What financing scheme gets the best bang for buck while helping those least able to afford the market fluctuation?
The question isn't "would you be fine with it at the margin?" - because the only reason to ask it is to sidle up to "maybe we should appease the nazis/just kind of not think about the genocide" under the auspices of "well there was no other choice so it's not really an immoral one".
The much better question is one of political accountability: why was the country made so vulnerable to this situation? Why were the vulnerable in the country made the most susceptible to this situation? Why were the alternatives ignored? And why is bold action not being taken now to fix this?