WELL, COULD THEY HAVE WORSE WAR-LEADERS? Europe Is Losing the Energy War.

Related: “For first time since the end of the Second World War, continental Europe is facing shortages: of food and, crucially, of energy.”

UPDATE: It’s worse: In mustard-loving France, shortage of condiment is nothing to sneeze at. Some of it’s weather, but some of it’s EU bureaucrats: “One problem Burgundy producers face is that the European Union has banned an insecticide long used to combat the black flea beetle, a scourge which has decimated harvests in the past.”