not selling to countries who participated in the gas ceiling is one of the Russia's sanction. more like a retaliation to that gas cap.
its why it doesn't make sense blowing up the pipeline going to Europe when they could just shut the valve. but now that its blown, EU have no choice anymore. they could make a deal still if they have that pipe operating again.
EU in between suffer the cold winter and economic collapse as well as Russia not able to make money from the west and isolated.
they could really escalate this to WW3 while not using nukes but they didn't. this is just prolonging the suffering of the people.
No, that's not how it works. Let me explain why:
1. Russia has NO WHERE to put the produced gas! YES, imagine. The largest gas supplier in the EU does not have sufficient storage facilities of its own. Until 2014, Russia stored gas in the Ukrainian GTS, Ukraine has the largest gas storage facilities.
And then Russia has a choice - either conservation (a synonym for stopping production for decades), or selling through other countries of the same EU, but already receiving 50% of the market value ... Because the resellers of "excess gas" are well aware that Russia does not have the opportunity to sell to someone else...
2. The EU has already replaced gas supplies from Russia with gas from other countries, under long-term contracts. At the moment more than 90%. Everything is in open sources
In a word - only Russia lost - because. the EU market is lost for her forever. And "friendly" China and India are twisting Russia's arms, forcing Russia to sell gas to them at a ridiculous price. If you don't want to - well, we'll wait, tomorrow we'll offer an even lower price
In my opinion, trade should not be confused with politics....
At one time, USSR Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev created a system for exporting energy resources to European countries with simultaneous imports of Western goods and technologies into the country. It was a very important element of the stable development of the country.
(At present, Nikita Khrushchev is slandered. He is portrayed as a fool and a voluntarist, although in fact Khrushchev was an outstanding political figure and a man with a strategic type of thinking.)
Of course, this state of affairs did not rule out economic crises. Such a crisis occurred in the 1980s, when the US administration agreed with the Arab sheiks on actions aimed at lowering energy prices. As a result, the economy of the USSR collapsed, the state collapsed.
At the same time, this crisis was caused by an external economic factor - the entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan. If not for this circumstance, the Arab sheikhs would never have colluded with the Americans.