Putin's freeze-the-Germans strategy isn't looking so hot

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3. Well, for sure, it's forced European nations to rethink their degree of energy

dependence on a nation that operates outside international law and is using it for blackmail and as a weapon of war, and that's a very positive development.

Sure feel for all who will still need Russian LNG to get through this winter. Cold will be no fun, and neither will extremely expensive capitulation to blackmail.

Apparently one reason Germany was in a hard place, in spite of its wealth, was that it lacked the capacity to turn LNG into gas form again for use, or some such thing, starting to develop it now but wouldn't be ready this winter. This sounds like Germany at least is meeting the existential part of its emergency.