> it would certainly immensely hurt Russia’s strategic position to have their gas exports cut off. Would it? Surely a few days of gas exports aren't that impo

> it would certainly immensely hurt Russia’s strategic position to have their gas exports cut off. Would it? Surely a few days of gas exports aren't that important to their economy, just because they can average the losses over many many more days of gas exports. Now europe has a reason to let russia win, and repair the pipeline. A few days without heating would damage europe (though I'm unsure how many days worth of gas europe has stored). I guess I could see it hurting Russia, because they lose a valuable resource and the threat to cut it off, but I could also see it helping them.