Well, everything is being spun to place the blame for any deprivation on Putin. As far as the media is concerned, it's not an energy crisis, it's a political crisis with Putin as the bad guy who wants to invade and holding them hostage to Ruskie gas supply.
This is how it lines up on the geopolitical level. If you join with the BRICS, you get your energy from Russia and China. FFs from the Ruskies, Renewables from the Chinese. Line up with NATO, you get your energy from the FSoA, Canada and the House of Saud. That's why the BRICS set up their own credit and clearing system, so they wouldn't be hostage to the Dollar and SWIFT in political and economic disputes.
Far as Russia's relationship with the Finns, the only thing important is their geographic position on the Baltic Sea, right across from the Ruskie naval installation in St. Petersburg. It's too far north to be a pipeline route for gas going west from Russia to Europe. If they were to start pumping Oil from the Arctic Ocean it could be important, but with the current glut and price of oil, nobody is going to drill the Arctic.
Anyhow, I don't think the Finns are worried about invasion. I think they're worried about energy shortages and supply chain failures.
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