"Bad news. Let a brutal authoritarian regime be responsible for part of out energy infrastructure? Madness."

My My, Isn't it inconvenient when economic reality intrudes upon the "liberal" myth?

If we are to function as a serious trading nation, we must be free to trade with any country in the world, we also need to attract investment as does any other trading nation.
Only well heeled "liberals" can afford the luxury of picking and choosing according to their ideology.

Just keep boycotting MacDonalds, you cannot do much harm in that.