playing silly buggers with Russian gas is just giving Mr Putin a ready made excuse - he'd be intervening to save western pensioners and the poor from the cold
Not saying premptively, Once the troops start rolling across the border in mass. Don't engage in mass as you know your not going to acheive anything. But throw as much as you can at high value targets back in the homeland.
The idea is he may have Ukraine, but it will cost him billions and the infrastructure to compensate for that will be diminished.
pipelines are easily REPAIRABLE but building a new one takes years
Agreed, but I was on the premise you can't stuff a whole pipeline (I could be wrong of course). Hence the processing plants.