[MNJohnnie]

Base your article on a lie, you lose.

Energy is subject to the same free market forces as any other commodity. Artificially inflate your price and your customers, while suffering short term pain, can covert to other options.

A seller, like Russia, with only one commodity to sell, is at the mercy of the market. Right now, due to bad Western Energy policy, Russia is in a sellers market. That can change.

But I know, never bother Putin's fluffers around here with the inconvenient facts.

[kiryandil]

Look at The Big Economic Brain on MNJohnnie.

I'm sure your Big Economic Brain has figured out a way to get your gasoline costs back down to Trump-era levels.

Or perhaps not...    

[Boogieman]

“your customers, while suffering short term pain, can covert to other options”

It may be a bit more than “short term pain” if you need to build a whole new pipeline to get your natural gas from somewhere else. Can’t just truck enough of that stuff in to heat half of Europe.

[BiglyCommentary]

This short term stunt will blow up in their faces over time. They just cut themselves off from significant amounts of dollars and euros that they’ll need for other trade. They have to pay 20% interest rates for people to hold rubles. They are getting so screwed on that.