That's not what happened. Germany's gas storage were half-empty in 2021 and prices in Europe were high. Russia had brought a large share of those gas storage f

That's not what happened. Germany's gas storage were half-empty in 2021 and prices in Europe were high. Russia had brought a large share of those gas storage facilities under its control. Gas deliveries were lower than usual. In the winter Putin than started the war against the Ukraine. Putin had prepared for the situation - sanctions against Putin were supposed to create energy shortages and fear among European citizens, give how much Europe's energy supply (gas, oil, and not to forget nuclear) depended on Russia. Sanctions were supposed to damage Europes economies, too. And they did, prices went up. The war was supposed to last only a few days and then Russia would control the Ukraine - Putin would have the Ukraine, the Pipelines, the energy. But that was not what happened. Putin miscalculated the situation and the reaction. Instead, the Ukraine government survived the first Russian attack, the war is now more than a year old, several stages of sanctions were brought into place, Europe&US delivers support for the Ukraine, Russia's energy industry is now largely decoupled from Europe, Russia is a political paria, and there were hundreds of thousands war victims and millions of refuges, due to Russias war on the Ukraine. Russia has yet failed to react to the political & military pressure against it with any signs of willing to end the war.