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And you're doing an excellent job of demonstrating why their half-assed Federalism concepts over there aren't getting the job done.
So what? It's like asking why the UN hasn't stopped the Russian invasion - or stopped war generally. The EU isn't a country - it's an institutionalized economic, financial, and trade federation among sovereign nations. It's not built for, and doesn't have the power to, get these kind of "jobs done." That's not what it's for. Brussels hasn't been given the power to be in charge of these types of decisions.
Heck, even in the United States - which is an actual national government and not an international federation - there are vast swathes of things that are simply not given to the federal government to do. We live in a nation built on "half-assed Federalism," so that some decisions would be made at the level of the sovereign states.
My point still remains - there aren't a lot of solutions to "get the job done" that remain untried. Ideas like "get the EU to reduce oil shipments" only appear to be likely prospects if you don't look at the details. Like the detail that the EU doesn't have the power to impose sanctions on Russia without unanimity, and they don't have unanimity, and the two countries that are importing all the oil are the ones that blocked the universal sanctions in the first place. Hungary in particular appears determined to get as much of their energy from Russia as they can (and for reasons other than merely price - Orban is a huge ally of Putin) - and since they are a sovereign nation that gets to make those decisions for themselves for the most part, there's been little that anyone can do about it.
