bell and air conditioning and modern hospitals. it is not another world. so given that given how closely related the united states is to europe and has always been, you would imagine our leaders would notice when europe began to fall apart, especially when the signs were not subtle at all and they weren t. this summer, germans begin clearcutting ancient forests to heat their homes. in poland, families queued up for hours to buy coal just did one hundred and fifty years ago in the uk, the government projected that more than ten thousand britons will freeze to death, will die this winter for lack of heating fuel. freeze to death in england. that is not supposed to happen in a first world country. so europe is moving backward at high speed and it s not clear where it will end. so the question is why is this happening? and the answer for once is a very simple one to warm ukraine. that s why it s happening. a huge percentage of europe s energy came from russia. those imports h