While the other hand is happily building Putins pipeline despite almost whole EU opposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream#Nord_Stream_2
Winters are cold and they don’t want to freeze to death as their grandfathers in 1941 (https://archive.is/csslJ).
They can’t burn coal for political reasons (green party), there is no enough solar generation, especially under winter sun, so they burn natural gas, which is cleanest fossil fuel.
The Whole West World is compromised because none of our institutions prevented this nor were the guilty war criminals prosecuted.