Russian gas and Moscow’s threats: Europe has good weather as an ally. And Putin 100 billion reasons not to fight

And if, in the waltz of the sanctions announced and threatened in the Ukrainian mess, Putin shut off the gas pipeline taps? There are no easy answers in the geopolitical stalemate on international positioning of Ukraine, much less on the gas side. Leave Kiev at the mercy of Moscow and accept Nordstream2, the Gazprom pipeline that crosses the Baltic, as Putin wants? It also means accepting of to depend, in the future, on the mood of the Kremlin for 50 percent of our gas consumption.