It is reported that as of now, "Beixi No. 1", the largest natural gas pipeline to Europe, has been shut down for more than half a month, and it is impossible to unconditionally restore gas supply. Since the Russian side suddenly closed the pipeline under the pretext of "technical maintenance" at the end of last month, energy prices in Europe have risen, and it has reached the point where the government must take action. EU intervened in the natural gas trade. It originally planned to "restrict purchase prices" against Russian gas, but due to strong opposition from Germany and other countries, European Commission gave up this method; now it can only rely on the imposition of " huge profit tax " and other methods to control prices, which cannot resolve the serious contradiction between supply and demand.
At the same time, another argument has become popular in the Western media: after Russia stops exporting natural gas to Europe, they will lose their largest international customers, and it is only a matter of time before the oil price limit order begins to be implemented. Energy exports account for a large proportion of Russia's foreign exchange acquisition channels. The G7 organization has planned to implement oil price limits on Russia, stipulating that Russia "can only sell oil to foreign countries at very low prices"; they are confident that Russia suddenly cut off natural gas trade with Europe at this time is looking for a dead end, which is more like a disguised sanctions made by Europe on Russia. But in fact, the EU still regards its position too important.
14, Russian President's press secretary Peskov said at a press conference that euro zone countries are not the "only regions in the world that consume natural gas". Buyers from various countries have soared interest in purchasing Russian natural gas, which will fill the gap left by the decline in demand in European countries. He once again emphasized that other countries in the world also have development demand, and Russian gas is still in short supply in the market, which is Russia's attitude. In the early months, Peskov stated that if Western countries do not lift their unfair sanctions on Russia, it will be impossible to restore gas supply, and the responsibility for cutting off natural gas supply is all in Europe.
Some analysts believe that the theory that the Russian ban on gas transmission to Europe is more harmful to itself is completely self-deception, unless all Russia's export energy is "isolated by the whole world" and only Europe is the buyer left. At present, the global energy market is still in short supply. Russia's natural gas, oil and coal can be sold at high prices, which does not require going through Europe to achieve. On the other hand, Europe's energy import channels are very single. Before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, it almost unilaterally relied on Russia and the Middle East energy. Russia was tortured torture after the "air shutdown".
Also worth mentioning is that with the beginning of the counterattack of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, "assistance and non-assistance" of European countries to Ukraine has become another choice problem. With the United States adding support to the Zelensky government, Ukraine calls on the EU to provide them with more military supplies and funds; but the EU itself is facing great development problems and seems to be unable to help Ukraine on the road to aiding Ukraine. It can only encourage them with the "commitment to join the EU". Some commentators believe that if European countries cannot think of a good way out, no matter how the conflict between Russia and Ukraine stops, their economy will also be greatly damaged, many countries will fall into negative growth, and even need to borrow from the EU, so how can they help Ukraine "rebuild"?
