[geysersam]

It's against logic if your only consideration is geo politics. And even then, many have argued economic cooperation builds peace and security through mutual trust and dependency. In the light of current events, this way of thinking has been discredited, but it's far from self evidently irrational.

[realusername]

It was against any geopolitics or environmental logic either.

[trashtester]

Europe being dependent on Russia led to Russia trusting that the EU would not intervene when Putin is off to a new adventure.