As time goes by, for European countries in high latitudes in the northern hemisphere, it has already entered winter. How to survive the cold winter after the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has become a major problem that the EU needs to solve.

As time goes by, for European countries in high latitudes in the northern hemisphere, it has entered winter. How to survive the cold winter after the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has become a major problem that EU needs to solve. Faced with the severe energy shortage crisis, leaders of many EU countries gathered together to hold a meeting to discuss solutions, but so far, no relevant resolutions can be put forward that can truly solve the problem. Because the fundamental reason for the European energy crisis is that the continuous sanctions on Russia have almost cut off the possibility of Europe obtaining low-priced natural gas from Russia, resulting in European countries having to choose to buy high-priced liquefied natural gas from the United States. The bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline has made Europe worse.

However, Russia seems to be trying to ease and has extended an olive branch to the EU. Russian President Putin said at the Energy Week event that Russia is ready to supply natural gas to Europe this fall and winter, and can be transported through the surviving "North Stream 2" pipeline. Putin pointed out that after the explosion of the Nord Stream pipeline, the two "North Stream 1" pipelines and one branch pipeline of "North Stream 2" were damaged, but there was still a "North Stream 2" branch pipeline that could transport 27.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Europe every year, accounting for about 8% of the total natural gas imports in Europe. Putin finally stressed that Russia will not restrict anyone in anything, including the delivery of additional natural gas to Europe, and that whenever they want, they can open the valve and get supply.

But Putin's kindness was rejected by Germany. German federal government spokesman Hoffman said in an interview with the media that even if the two Nord Stream pipelines have the possibility of Russia's "deliberate damage", Germany will not now consider Russia as a reliable energy supplier. Moreover, before the Beixi pipeline explosion occurred, the Beixi pipeline "Beixi No. 1" had stopped supplying gas.

Recently, many senior executives of the German government have changed their previous attitude, as if they are awakening and repenting. For example, German Vice Premier Habek publicly accused the United States of charging too high natural gas fees, while German Chancellor Scholz publicly opposed the United States. When attending German Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Federation , Scholz made it clear that he opposed decoupling from China and supported globalization. As we all know, the United States has been instigating decoupling internationally in recent years, promoting anti-globalization, and after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, it has made excess profits from energy trade with Europe. Habek and Scholz's statements have led many people to believe that Germany may adjust its foreign policy in the future to ease relations with Russia in order to obtain low-priced natural gas to alleviate the internal energy shortage of Germany.

But from the current situation, Germany obviously had no intention of turning to Russia. Perhaps it was because Germany believed that Russia was not a trustworthy object. After all, before the accident occurred in the Nord Stream pipeline, the Russian Gas Company repeatedly reduced the gas transmission volume of the Nord Stream pipeline on the grounds of pipeline maintenance, and finally even stopped gas supply directly. On some level, it is not an exaggeration for Germany to regard it as "political coercion". However, the energy problem has had a very serious impact on Germany. There are far more German companies going bankrupt due to excessive energy prices. Many German people who cannot afford high energy prices have also taken to the streets to hold demonstrations, demanding that the German government open the "North Stream 2" natural gas pipeline.

Now Germany bluntly rejects Russia's kindness, which will undoubtedly make the people's livelihood and economic problems brought about by the energy crisis more serious. Even though the German government has previously introduced an energy relief plan worth up to 200 billion euros to cope with the problem of excessive energy prices to subsidize German companies and people and protect them from the impact of soaring natural gas prices, providing subsidies is not a long-term solution and cannot solve the fundamental problem. Germany should deal with the problem based on reality, and there is no need to cut off all retreats, not to mention that Russia has resumed supply of gas to Italy not long ago.