@Euan_MacDonald
Because I have faith (belief, without evidence) that Putin orchestrated TFG's tariff and export spat with China, he should have learned from TFG's destruction of the soy bean exports. China just got them from someone else, and our export market for soybeans evaporated.
European countries have started getting the LNG from someone else, and they're accelerating plans to move away from fossil fuels. The barrel he thought he had them over is going to crush the Russian economy.