It's still winter. Much of Europe relies on Gazprom directly for natural gas and perhaps more pervasively, for a lot of low cost natural gas to maintain market

It's still winter. Much of Europe relies on Gazprom directly for natural gas and perhaps more pervasively, for a lot of low cost natural gas to maintain market stability. Indeed, Gazprom's recent inaction to stabilise supply has seen wholesale prices rocket. I can't imagine the chaos if Gazprom were ordered to cut the supply off. By which I mean to say, Russia has bargaining power here too. It's not just pointy sticks.