Translation: Putin wants natural gas prices even higher.
You have to take him seriously. Look nothing works in Russia. An accident will trigger something really big. A rogue General or the threat of losing it all is all it takes.
If this is a harsh winter, and europe rebuilds nukes, and coal, and natural gas, someday we will thank Putin for single handedly magically ending Gorebull Warming by quietly sending it down the memory hole
That, and feeding all of Sergei's friends into the Ukrainian woodchipper so Putin can appoint his tumor as his successor.
"Today, the new Russian President PutinTumor ordered a complete stand-down in the Ukraine, apologizing that the war had 'metastasized', and that the situation could no longer be 'treated' as 'benign'."