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Thanks, I need to do more homework. Can Ukraine cut the supply to Germany?
Think of gas pipelines as an electrical circuit with multiple redundancy - one cable goes down the power can be re-routed.
If Ukraine shut the pipelines in their country gas could be re-routed through Belarus and Nord Stream 1 (Russia to Germany). But not in the capacities required. Hence the political wrangling over Nord Stream 2 for the past few years and Germany's governments' reluctance to kick up a fuss over Russia. In short, Germany boxed itself into a corner and screwed Ukraine at the same time.
ETA. Remember Russia's seizure of the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline during their entirely peacekeeping mission in South Ossetia? Russia has the EU, and especially Germany, by the nuts - just another aspect of the Russian multifaceted attack on the West.
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