[Skybird]

Catfish, again: Putinis desperate, he cannot afford to waste effort son planning beyond the imminent present, because he struggles for mere suriovval. He must disrupt Europe NOW, or he is toast.

Also, it is pattern with Russia. They alway stry to fabricate a sitaiton that serves as an alibi for their own misdeeds. Everybody knows it, and so do they, still they always do that. The Siemens turbine was a fake excuse (not to deliver gas). The referendums are fake excuses (to russify parts oif Ukraine and then declare any attempt to rteclaim them as an attack on Russia). The broken pipeline is a fake excuse not to deliver gas now or later. And it is an excuse for trying to push diusputrting energy in Europoe without formally being held accountable - or can anyone prove that it were the Russians?

The future is something one does not care for if one's survival is threatened in the imminent, immediate, direct present. First things first.