Is not the denial of gas to Poland and Bulgaria yet another huge mistake, if not the biggest?
In geopolitical and economic terms this will surely echo down the years, as customers [not only for gas] take note that the implied threats are, as circumstances change, actually carried out.
Hitherto BU [BU = Before Ukraine] Western pragmatism's default was "they would not dare do it because it would hit them in the pocket". Wrong. That Rubicon has been crossed.
This is like Putin leading the King to a trick, without being sure if the ace and all the trumps have gone.
The scramble for energy security will now hot up to fever pitch. Nuclear, anybody?