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Unfortunately I think you're right with this. He has been playing the long game all along, and to be fair to him, he has played it well so far; lots of pieces set up. A divided EU/US, a continent largely dependant on him for power (at least in the short-term), destabilised neighbours (some in...

Ah yes, well spotted, thought this was from last year. However the article (and others on this website) does point to it being very likely (IMO, I think a reasonable one) that there is more than internal German/EU internal politics preventing it from 'turned-on'.

I'm not sure that's strictly true, and certainly not the whole story: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-pipeline-is-a-strategic-weapon-it-must-be-stopped/ Germany may not have 'signed off' something, but for what reason/s or not, is very hard to tell. Certainly there...

Why aren't we fully utilising the Nord Stream 1 pipeline? Edit: And for that matter any of the other pipelines from the east? This is far more than a "Complete and utter cock up by Germany and the EU", IMO way too simplistic to think this way...