>Are you saying Putin hasn’t used threats to cut gas supplies to Europe to attempt to deter the West from helping Ukraine? If that was addressed to me: I'm poi

>Are you saying Putin hasn’t used threats to cut gas supplies to Europe to attempt to deter the West from helping Ukraine? If that was addressed to me: I'm pointing out [for the nth time] that, after Russia invaded Ukraine, the EU and UK announced their intentions to completely stop buying Russian gas & oil. This has now been spun into the narrative that [as I quoted above, from the Economist article] "It [Russia] has used cuts in gas supplies, or the threat of them, to try to blackmail Europe since the early days of its invasion of Ukraine..." This is the exact opposite of the truth. Russia continued to supply oil & gas and pledged to keep on doing so, right from day 1 of the invasion of Ukraine. It was the EU & UK which decided to weaponise energy supplies and they are now suffering the consequences. Hence the 'Ministry of Truth' version of events that we're seeing now, repeated over and over again til it becomes fact. Amusing also that pointing this out gets your post downvoted and flagged to oblivion. Kind of reinforces my point, no?