1) that gave Russia a lot of leverage over us, so, lessons should be learned.

2) Tech dominance is almost at 100% for large companies and governments across europe. Much higher than 17%

Even after 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, Europe didn't learn it lessons. After 2022 the leverage just shifted to other countries.

17% is the share of money spent on imports by category. The actual energy imports dependency rate is much higher.

"The energy imports dependency rate in the EU was 57%, which means that nearly 60% of the EU’s energy needs were met by net imports. However, the dependency rate varied across EU countries. The highest levels were found in Malta (98%), Luxembourg (91%) and Cyprus (88%), while the lowest dependency was in Estonia (5%), Sweden (27%) and Latvia (29%)."

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/w...

You're reading it backwards.

The EU is a lot less energy dependent than it was in 2020, precisely because of the situation they are in now.

Just because it's painful and time consuming to fix, doesn't mean that it's not worth being fixed, nor does it mean that it's not happening.

Between 2021 - 2025, petroleum oils didn't change much. Lot of natural gas imports in gaseous state has been just replaced with LNG.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

There was slight decrease in total natural gas consumption, back to level from about 1995.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...