ed: got this wrong, ignore! > Russia wants the taps capable of being turned ON at their discretion, not permanently broken. This hurts their bargaining positio

ed: got this wrong, ignore! > Russia wants the taps capable of being turned ON at their discretion, not permanently broken. This hurts their bargaining position in a big way because they've just lost their biggest source of leverage against Germany. As I understand it this leak is in the new NordStream 2 pipeline and NordStrem 1 is unaffected, so they can still supply gas in to the EU through NS1.