Vladimir Putin is carrying out his finest to potent-arm Europe. That’s the only way to look at the remarks produced Monday by his Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov that Russian natural gas would not get started flowing yet again by way of the enormous Nord Stream 1 pipeline until eventually the West lifts it sanctions against Russia. This hottest move has “substantially greater the danger that Europe could not get additional gas flows via Nord Stream 1 for the entire winter,” analysts at electrical power consultancy Rystad Power explained in a research report cited by CNBC.