It seems to have dawned on the EU’s energy commissioner that the bloc has a bit of a dependency problem. “There’s a growing concern, which I share, that we risk replacing one dependency with another,” Dan Jorgensen said of the switch from Russian to US energy. You wish, bro! Truth is, they haven’t even managed that much.

“Switching” dependencies implies the existence of a dependable alternative source – that they’ve grabbed securely onto the second branch before letting go of the first. In reality, they’ve mostly just landed on their backside with a pile of energy bills crashing down upon their own citizens.

Worse, when a blast of Arctic weather hit both the US and Europe earlier this month, it turned out that the US wasn’t exactly in a position to gallop across the Atlantic to Europe’s rescue, because it was busy trying to keep its own citizens’ heaters running.

The EU has long had a habit of sailing confidently into the middle of the ocean, spotting no land in any direction, then lighting its own sails on fire in service of whatever ideologically charged ambition happens to be in fashion, and saying, “Well, guess we’ll just figure out how to get back to shore. Fingers crossed.”

Meanwhile, EU citizens are yelling about how monumentally dumb it is, while being reassured by their overlords that they’re actually winning big. Even as daily life keeps suggesting otherwise.

Now the EU bureaucracy itself has started yelling at the unelected executive that sets policy for the bloc. Remember that much-hyped energy transition to renewables that Brussels promised to lock in by 2030? The one they keep mentioning in between warnings that Putin is supposedly about to roll into Europe at around the same time?

Well, it turns out that the bloc’s own........

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