Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Just to bring home the point, France's Finance Minister Le Maire, over the weekend, noted that, "it's not a surprise" that the Nord Stream gas pipeline was shut indefinitely.

He also did say that EU Unanimity on Russian Price Cap was a 'Challenge'

While its OK creating noise about attempting to put a price cap to Russian oil, the real test will before us as winter descends upon EU and how the energy market behaves.

I believe the EU Unity is all too fragile and will easily break up when the push comes to shove.

Meanwhile, Putin is already playing up the issue saying that EU has lost its political sovereignty for these nations are pursuing polices that are detrimental to the welfare of their own people, businesses and economies.