there’s no shortage of pipeline capacity for taking gas from Russia to Western Europe, including Germany
For now. Serial loser Putin has lost round one of the energy hybrid war. Europe has gas for this winter and he is escalating. But what happens when Russia bombs the other pipelines? You see now we deserve to have our pipelines targeted now according to Putin’s fan club. Could the same be said if those pipes sat their empty. Not as easily.
“But what happens when Russia bombs the other pipelines?”
I would assume an unprecedented surge in tragic smoking-related disasters among Russian critical infrastructure - the kind never seen before Putin decided to try full scale invasion and mass mobilization.
He has to be stopped by force. The West understands that, and has long prepared for it.
It is kind of like Putin deciding to fight WWIII, but no other countries are on his side, not even Kazakhstan or Armenia. Not even Belarus.
Russia’s appetite for conquest has exceeded its capability for centuries