the unitedion states. ey yeah, a they are absolutely committed to keepinge this entire dynamic with nato going long after germany, even with the stopping of the nord stream pipeline, at leastne temporarily, germany clearly is far less interested in containing russia than we are and we re not even enforcing our own border and we re supposed to enforce ukraine s border. how does that make any sense to the average american out there? well, i mean, at one point the bush administration got ahead of the president ofg ukraine in calling for somefouk sort ofra countries, even ukrainians like whoa, whoa, settle down, joe biden. muchjo us the germans i mean, it s a whole separatele conversation, but in one sense energy matters. o you can t run a civilization without it. i don t care what sandy quintez claimst.. the truth is we have progress. weav have lights, we haveht hospitals, we have airplanes. we are not living in caves because we have cheap energy. that s a prerequisite for civilization. g