the crunch question

 

QUESTION: The great European nations of Germany, France and Italy continue to buy oil and gas from Vladimir Putin's Russia presenting Mr Putin with no less than a billion dollars a day to finance his ongoing invasion of Ukraine. So for eighty six days and counting since Putin launched his smash and grab on Ukraine, the nations of Germany, France and Italy have continued with their misguided Green Party inspired policies of buying so called clean energy from Vladimir Putin's dictatorship, thereby providing Vladdie the Pute with unlimited financing for his attempted subjugation of Ukraine. The nations of Germany, France and Italy have stated that they will need a year to restructure their economies to do without Putin's oil and gas. Ukraine doesn't have a year. The Ukrainian cities which are being reduced to rubble at this moment by Putin's bombs and missiles do not have a year. The people who will die or be maimed in the fields and on the streets of Ukraine today do not have a year. My question is this: How long would it take Germany, France and Italy to retructure their economies so that they could stop buying oil and gas from Vladimir Putin to the tune of a billion dollars a day if Mr Putin's armies tonight rolled into Germany, France and Italy?

ANSWER: Oh about a full five seconds.