Analysis – Energy crunch: How the UK could play crucial role if Russia turned off gas taps to Europe – By Ed Conway (Sky News) / February 16, 2022
Sky’s Ed Conway examines how Europe could cope in the event Russia decided to leave some of its biggest customers out in the cold and finds post-Brexit Britain could provide the solution.
There are many unknowns in the Russia-Ukraine situation.
Will Russia invade? Will it stop short of invasion while taking other steps to destabilise Ukraine? Will it face European or American sanctions? What form would those sanctions take? And so on.
But perhaps chief among the unknowns is what might happen to Europe’s energy supply.
This is no trivial question – indeed, there’s an argument that it’s the most important underlying question of all. Many parts of Europe – especially Germany – are so reliant on Russian gas that there’s a strong argument that this reliance is what’s really guiding diplomacy.
