This is something that has been bothering me from the start of the so called SMO. Europe relied on gas flowing through Ukraine pipelines. Couldn’t Russia just have stopped the flow, and forgone the war?
This is something that has been bothering me from the start of the so called SMO. Europe relied on gas flowing through Ukraine pipelines. Couldn’t Russia just have stopped the flow, and forgone the war?
First, it would devastate the Russian economy to actually stop the flow of oil/gas by all means into Europe.
Second, it seems to me like this would be a potential trigger for WW III. Literally turning the lights out for the entire continent of Europe would have to be met by an insane reaction by Europe and the USA.