Sure, switching away from fossil fuels is absolutely something Europe should have been doing a long time ago. The most practical and obvious way to do that would be to buy stuff like wind turbines and solar panels from China to close the immediate gap, and then work on developing domestic industry to close the gap. That's not actually happening though. Even though people are starting to realize there's a huge energy crisis, no significant moves are being made by Europe to phase in renewables at scale. So, the only possible outcome in the near future is an economic crash.

Germany is at the heart of the European economy. But it's not just Germany that's doing poorly. France, and the UK are also in dire straits. And if any of them crashes, that's going to be a huge crisis for all of Europe. That's just a matter of time at this point.

Meanwhile, if you look at the percentages, it's quite clear that renewables cannot replace fossil fuels in the near future. The EU has no solar/wind sector to protect, but you are right that it has every right to destroy its own economy snobbing the only country that could shift the needle for Europe. The only one being dishonest here is you pretending like Europe has some plan to move off fossil fuels in the foreseeable future.

Also, absolutely hilarious that you think all the nationalists are in Europe because of Russia and China as opposed to the fact that Europe has always been a fascist shithole. And now that its crashing economically, it's going back to doing what it does best. There's also zero evidence to the right having plateaued. Every single poll shows it growing by the day.

Most of the immediate problems are very much directly caused by the fallout from the war. Europe relied on cheap Russian energy to function, and now that it's been cut off there is enormous economic blow back. On top of that, Europe has diverted an incredible amount of resources towards the war which led to austerity driving the rise of nationalism.

And if you think BRICS is a joke, what else is there to say really. BRICS is literally a bigger economic bloc than the G7 already, and these are the economies that are showing rapid growth. And I'm bringing G7 into this because that's the totality of the western bloc led by the US which is in a direct competition with BRICS right now.

Russia isn't doing any mobilzing right now, that's what's happening in Ukraine, and if you think these kinds of losses are going to have a big demographic impact on Russia then you must've failed basic arithmetic in school. https://ukrainewarlosses.org/

Also, not sure why it would not seem like what Russia is doing is enough given that it is advancing all across the front right now and is about to take all of Donbas. You might want to read up a bit of history, like what happened in the second world war to understand how wars of attrition work.

And it's actually the opposite. There is no scenario where Russia goes belly up period. Russia failing and becoming destabilized would be a disaster for China because NATO would be able to start building up forces on China’s western flank, and to cut them off from access to food, energy, and resources. So, if Russia ever finds itself in trouble economically, China will necessarily step in. It's really that simple.