> Russian gas, which has caused widespread misery in Europe.
I agree with you cynicism about the free market, but the situation with Russian gas turned out way better than was feared. Party this was due to a mild winter but the forecasts were very grim for a while there.
They are responding to a factual statement: "... caused widespread misery in Europe".
I live in Europe and have to laugh at that. The misery they're talking about is a 2x increase in the electric bill, which some of the richer governments (e.g. Sweden) paid back to most consumers (I got two paybacks so far, making my electric bill for the year about the same as the year before, I would say). If they think this is "misery", I think the commenter has absolutely never seen anything even close to real misery.
What do you think will happen if there is major crop failure and food shortages?
These free-market extremists don't know when to stop, they have caused more damage than the Taliban.