In my opinion, it creates a big problem for EU. If Russia cannot sell gas for EU, they will earn less money but they still sell it, for example, Asia nations. In the side of EU, they are meeting the seriously scarcity of gas and food. They choose to decrease the gas in the WINTER.
In what way did the EU choose to reduce gas in winter? because gas has become a staple now even though it can still be tricked not to use it, but some people are also lazy if they have to replace gas with other materials for their every need. Basically all countries need gas and if the EU no longer accepts gas sales from the Russian side, then the Russian side can still market it to other continents besides Europe. Because gas will not be a waste as long as everyone still really needs it in everyday life.
Even with the decrease in gas supplies or the interruption carried out by Russia under the pretext of maintenance work, Europe can survive the crisis during the winter with the help of the austerity measures that it has taken. But if the Russian supply stops completely, this will undoubtedly create a crisis. Yesterday, the G7 summit demanded the formation of a committee to determine the price of Russian gas, which Russia absolutely rejected, threatening to cut off gas supplies permanently if this happened. If Russia implements its threats, it will certainly cause a global crisis, including the insane rise in the price of gas from other producers due to the increased demand .
What are you right about - the fact that the state is a terrorist, military and economic, Russia can still reduce the gas supply to the EU, and possibly even stop it completely! That I completely agree with you. They have such a vile and vile nature. Well, a terrorist state, what do you expect from them?
As for the rest, I disagree with you. And I will even give quite verifiable arguments. To begin with, the tantrums on the topic "without Russian gas, we will all freeze and the industry will die" are distributed exclusively by the propaganda of Russia itself. The problem is that without the sale of such volumes of gas to the EU, the Russian economy will collapse even without sanctions!
Main and main. ONLY PART OF European countries really depend on Russian gas. This is very easy to check. I must say right away - in the circle of those "sitten on the Kremlin's gas needle" - Germany, France, Italy, Hungary. In other countries, there is no noticeable dependence, and Russian gas, in the total volume of purchased or consumed gas, is no more than 15%, which is easily leveled by LNG supplies from the United States, or by gas purchases, for example, from Norway, which now already sells more gas to the EU than the international country terrorist, russia. The largest part of Russian gas, and the gas that goes to industry, is Germany. There, part of the Russian gas from the total volume of consumption is about ... 40%. No 75% or 90% to make it really an unsolvable problem. 40%, and the rest have less! You can easily find all this data in open official sources! And do not listen to those propaganda from the terrorist country!
