> [Russia] Against: It looks a lot like a glass cannon to me. Meaning, Europe will now change their behavior to remove dependence on Russian energy. Europe was

> [Russia] Against: It looks a lot like a glass cannon to me. Meaning, Europe will now change their behavior to remove dependence on Russian energy. Europe was _already_ working about as hard as they could on removing their dependence on Russia though. Another way to see this would be that around now might be the last chance for something like this to hurt Europe and still have time to put political pressure on afterwards. If this had been done in the middle of winter, Europe would treat it as an attack and would be on their guard, but now Russia can play political games in the background to destabilize Europe or at least reduce Europe's will to help Ukraine.