Yes, that’s another way to think about it, a rather paranoid one, but interesting nonetheless.
I still believe that Russia has enough internal problems of its own to be a serious threat to us though. Trying to control energy supplies is just an attempt to maximise the returns they get from their natural resources and increase their general political influence for its own sake. It won’t work to any major degree I don’t think and it’s only the same thing that many other countries do on a daily basis, part of the global geo-political game rather than a hostile act.
Europe can and should in my opinion expand nuclear energy production to proportions seen in France or Sweden, continue research and development of renewable sources such as wind, solar, tidal, geothermal etc and continue to make efficiency savings to lessen dependence on Russia and the middle-east.
