I’ve spent my career working to build energy security — first as a Senate staffer, then in think tanks here in D.C. For more than a decade, I wrote, traveled, and spoke about how to build energy security for the United States and our allies, especially in Europe.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is far worse than any nightmare that energy security analysts anticipated. Putin’s invasion underlines how the Russian dominance of energy exports to Europe has created a political and economic dependence that feeds both the Russian war machine and the anti-NATO political parties across Europe supported by the Kremlin.