It’s an entirely adequate substitute if you don’t base your export dependent economy on cheap Russian gas, and heat your homes with it during winter at the same time, see: East Asia.
Never commit two crimes at the same time.
Never commit two crimes at the same time.
Mexico alone provides more crude oil to the US than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined, it is 2022, not 2001.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...
Neither of those countries pose an existential threat to the North American equivalent of Northern & Eastern Europe (who may take issue with a lack of enthusiasm in weakening Russia) either.