u/syklemil — esa

The Commission chose this route to avoid its proposals being vetoed by Slovakia and Hungary, whose governments have opposed the ban. Sanctions would be the strongest legal basis for banning Russian gas, but require unanimous approval from all EU countries.

It's good that they found a way around those fifth columns!

Yeah, one problem here is that global container circulation needs to, well, circulate. People don't ship empty containers, that's stupid expensive. So container hire is going to get way more expensive as global shipping needs to rebalance. Happened under covid, too.

Uh, we historically had some rather repressive regimes, and some countries were ruled by dictators until the 90s. People like Franco and Ceausescu and Tito weren't that long ago.

But it's generally been pretty good in the millennial lifetime.