Massive warmongering country which doesn’t invest in educating, feeding, or providing safety or healthcare for its citizens and doesn’t invest in its own infrastructure decides to switch to a limited supply of energy that makes people unhealthy and tries to deny said energy to other countries in order to harm and literally torture them, versus
Much more massive country with a history of innovating and pulling a billion people out of poverty(and not just the standard of that first country, but actually the more massive country’s much higher standard for poverty), which is doing a lot to invest in educating, feeding, and providing safety and healthcare for its own systems and investing massively in its own infrastructure and is quickly switching to solar and other renewable forms of energy and is quickly using dedesertification to try to stop and reverse the spread of deserts and turn them back into forests and vegetation, and is providing energy to a country that said first country is trying to deprive.
I mean, the optics of this externally are:
Massive warmongering country which doesn’t invest in educating, feeding, or providing safety or healthcare for its citizens and doesn’t invest in its own infrastructure decides to switch to a limited supply of energy that makes people unhealthy and tries to deny said energy to other countries in order to harm and literally torture them, versus
Much more massive country with a history of innovating and pulling a billion people out of poverty(and not just the standard of that first country, but actually the more massive country’s much higher standard for poverty), which is doing a lot to invest in educating, feeding, and providing safety and healthcare for its own systems and investing massively in its own infrastructure and is quickly switching to solar and other renewable forms of energy and is quickly using dedesertification to try to stop and reverse the spread of deserts and turn them back into forests and vegetation, and is providing energy to a country that said first country is trying to deprive.
The optics look really bad for the first country.