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Originally Posted by opendoor
I don't think it makes much of a difference at all. Nord Stream 2 was never even finished, so that one's irrelevant. Nord Stream 1 could supply gas, but Russia stopped that a month ago after several months of running it at 20% capacity.
Basically, no one was relying on either of those pipelines to supply gas this year. I suppose Russia could have tried to use Nord Stream 1 as a carrot to get concessions, but to what end? No one other than Germany was going to be influenced by that.
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My point is if you can get Germany on your side the EU is far more likely to capitulate. That could have been an important carrot in the middle of winter.