After being targeted by the United States and Europe, Putin did not care about what "morality" was, gave up the commitment of "never using energy as a weapon", and began to "tighten the air valve" for Europe. According to a report by the Russian Satellite News Agency on September 3, Gazprom announced that it was warned by the Russian Environmental Protection, Technology and Atomic Energy Supervision Agency that the faulty gas turbine could not operate safely, so the Nord Stream-1 gas pipeline would be "indefinitely suspended" and "until troubleshooting".
It is reported that the "Nord Stream-1" natural gas pipeline was put into operation in 2011, up to 1222 kilometers, can deliver 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Europe every year, is the world's longest submarine pipeline, is the most important natural gas transmission pipeline in Russia and Europe. Gazprom announced the "indefinite closure" of the line, ostensibly a "commercial decision" and caused by a "failure", but in fact, it was a decision made by the Russian government - specifically Putin - gazprom also admitted that it was warned by the relevant departments of the Russian Federation, "Therefore, it is necessary to take measures" to indefinitely close the "Nord Stream-1" pipeline.
This is, of course, "bad" news for Europe. According to the Peninsula News Network reported on September 3, after Russia made the decision to "stop sending natural gas to Europe", the price of natural gas in Europe soared to $3100 per thousand cubic meters, more than 6 times the price of the same period last year. Due to the soaring price of natural gas, the European electricity price is also rising, and the current European electricity price has risen 3 times compared with last year, which is 10 times the electricity price 5 years ago! Ultra-high electricity prices have made the European people miserable, britain's "energy poor households" have nearly doubled, and some European cities have "daily power outages".
It seems that putin stomped his feet in the Palace of Ke, European countries will suffer, the local people will be "breathless", then, the "pressure mountain" of European countries can survive the coming winter? Will it "ask" for peace with the fighting nations? Data from AGSI, a website dedicated to tracking global gas inventories, shows that the gap between rich and poor Countries in Europe is so pronounced that it is almost certain that major European countries will be able to weather the upcoming winter with relative ease, such as 84% of gas storage in Germany, 91% in France, 99% in Poland, 82% in Italy, 88% in Denmark and 88.5% in Belgium.
Some poor European countries are miserable, "they face severe shortages of natural gas reserves", such as Hungary's 63% gas reserves, Latvia's 53%, and Bulgaria's 66%, all of which have not reached the minimum gas reserves needed for a "safe winter". This means that the major European countries can basically survive the cold winter, at least through this year's winter, there is no big problem; But there is a big gap in natural gas reserves in small and poor countries in Europe, and many people have to "burn newspapers" for heating this winter, and if the local government does not introduce remedial measures, they may even be frozen alive.
The British magazine "The Economist" used the "natural gas disaster" to describe the upcoming winter energy crisis, so will European countries, especially the European Union, "ask putin" for peace because of insufficient energy? It should be said that this is really unlikely, unless there is an "unexpected" and long extremely cold weather. The reason for this is that, on the one hand, as mentioned above, the major European countries are actually ready to spend the winter "not dependent on Gazprom", they spend money to buy natural gas from various countries and store it, although it does not meet the 100% standard, it is basically enough.
As for the small and poor countries in Europe, the big European countries do not care, and in these years "the landlords' families have no surplus grain", they can only "ask for more blessings for themselves"; Taking ten thousand steps back, even if these small European countries are dissatisfied and advocate "peace" with Russia, they will not be able to determine the general trend of the EU. Therefore, Putin wants to use "energy weapons" to "unload the EU into eight pieces", or force the EU to fall to Russia, at least for the time being, basically unable to achieve the expected goal, the main EU countries have been prepared to "die to the end", Putin completely cut off the Supply of Russian Gas is not good.
On the other hand, some people do not understand, think that European politicians are "stupid and do not pull a few", think that there is no "politician" in Europe except Aunt Mo, in fact, they do not understand the "suffering" of the EU. The EU also does not want to "lift a stone and drop it on its own feet", but there is no way, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict broke out, they understood at the beginning, this is the bureau of the United States, the United States is the initiator, but what can they do? Without the protection of the European coalition forces, they can only rely on the United States, so they know that the fate of "anti-Russian" will be very miserable, but they have no choice, otherwise who will protect them?
As long as the United States is willing, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict can spread to the whole of Europe at any time; besides, the United States has recently instigated Kosovo to come out and make trouble, and it has been on the same side with Serbia, and even NATO is "ready to intervene." If the EU does not listen to the United States, there will be another war within Europe. Therefore, "people have to bow their heads under the roof", not only to "bow their heads", but also to "be willing" and show "bold loyalty", so Germany not only acknowledges that "the dream of building a unified Homeland in Europe has been shattered", but also actively cooperates with the United States and imitates Japan to "deal with China", hoping that the United States can "look up".
Under such circumstances, even if the listed netizens are the leaders of the european powers, they cannot change anything, even if Aunt Mo is still the German chancellor, in the face of this situation, it can only be "pro-American and anti-Russian", otherwise Germany is the "target of the public" of the United States and Europe, a "traitor", a "small fan of Putin", will be driven out of the Western camp, and Germany will have no future to speak of. Therefore, although Putin has made a cruel move, and indeed made Europe "bleeding", it is impossible to force the EU to "change its mind", not that they are "unconscious", they are very sober, but "there is no choice".
So, in the current situation, who is the "biggest winner"? According to a report by the Russian Satellite News Agency on September 2, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian pointed out to the point that as the "initiator" of the Ukrainian crisis, the United States has become "the biggest winner in watching the fire from across the shore and reaping the profits", which is worthy of consideration and vigilance in the world. China's words are not "growing the morale of others", its original intention is to remind European countries "don't be stupid", do not follow the United States and anti-Russia, Europe is in a mess, but the Americans are "making a lot of war money", "cutting leeks" for their allies, hoping to "wake up" Europeans.
As we have already said, "useless", whether Putin uses the "energy stick" to beat him to death, or China's "euphemistic persuasion", it is impossible to "wake up" Europe, the reason is very simple, people are not sleepy at all, they have not slept at all, their brains are very awake, but they "have no choice". If the EU had already established its own "European coalition" and had its own nuclear weapons, it would have been possible to "say no" to the United States, but it would have been too late, so German President Steinmeier would have said in frustration that "the dream of building a unified European homeland has been shattered" and Germany will embrace the United States again and begin to oppose China.