Read and learn:
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/basf-ceo-warns-germany-total-collapse-if-russian-gas-supply-cut
What you are proposing is national suicide—for Germany.
Shooting yourself in the knee to protest the high school bully is just dumb.
Nobody wants to be the crash test dummy.
It would not be suicide, it would be belt tightening - but to a degree this generation has not seen before.
And its not something that I am proposing, it is based on what Putin does.
He is using the natural gas supply as a political weapon to bully and control Germany, as he has done many times before further East. If they acquiesce, he captures more resources with which to bully them, adds more population to his Armies, and marches closer to their border. He has previously publicly expressed his view that Poland is also not a legitimate country, but should be part of Russia.
Pay now, or pay later, or both - but pay they must. The beast they fed has grown beyond control. The Russian threat is no longer theoretical. Putin is spilling rivers of blood, and declaring an end to the rules based order of maintaining peace.
It is a new era of naked conflict for the Europeans. They are going to have to steel themselves for the hardships involved.