Political elites in Europe such as Mario Draghi and Ursula von der Leyen are characterized as out of touch with reality regarding energy economics and military strategy, but Doomberg attributes this more to incompetence than to malicious conspiracy.

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we understand why people hold such views the elites of the western world uh confound us with their own seeming lack of basic understanding of both energy economics and apparently um you know military strategy... I I'm still in the incompetence camp and not in the malice camp

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If EU Doesn't Cozy Up to Russia, Energy Crisis Will End Them: DoombergCommodity Culture
Created: 8/10/2026, 4:34:54 PM

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