https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/gazprom-halts-gas-shipments-europe-critical-pipeline

Seeing the pipeline reverse flow and instead of sending energy west to the EU instead flow east to buyers more happy to continue paying top bracket prices for russian energy.. will send a chill down the spines of the EU that isnt merely metaphorical.

Its all well and good to posture with faux heroics and moral indignation, but if the cost of this is your citizens freezing and your economy going into freefall this resolve will weaken and break.

And Putin clearly knows this.