January 1 - a catastrophe of the Russian Federation. As the cessation of gas transit became Putin's personal defeat

The loss of Ukrainian gas transit is not just a geopolitical failure of Russia, but also a huge personal defeat of Putin, says journalist Ivan Yakovina. If the dictator could predict such a situation in January 2022, it would hardly begin a great war . . . If on January 1, 2022, someone told Putin that in exactly three years the export of gas from Russia to the EU and a huge flow of money in the opposite direction would stop completely , he would probably not even start a great war.

Gazprom is practically his personal company, his money, his wealth. Her loss and quite real bankruptcy for Putin is not an abstract "defeat of Russia", it is stolen in person's family fortune. The invasion was largely for the sake of control of the Ukrainian GTS and no longer pay Naftogaz for transit. But everything went to a scrape. Termination of gas supplies to Europe is a huge personal defeat of Vladimir Putin - a person of greedy and loving luxury.