German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused Russia of using energy as a weapon in view of the curtailment of gas supplies at the summer party of the German Renewable Energy Association on Wednesday evening. “Germany has relied too long on energy supplies from Russia and it has been too one-sided. Today we have to realize: Russia is using energy as a weapon. No one believes that Russia is reducing its gas supplies for technical reasons alone,” the German leader said. It is now a matter of reducing dependence on Russian energy imports as quickly as possible without putting security of supply at risk, …