Needless prominence oh lol please rewatch Z <| sep |> Putin regularly uses fossil fuels as a blackmail to Europe , because when you have trouble heating your condo in the winter that is kinda scary . So resource bottlenecks are one way . As for the market gap scenario , there is a lot of room to play around . They can close down , move the equipment to their country and export from there . And so on . Broader logic . I used to be libertarian . I stopped it when I realized the economy is not just about market and consumers . It has highly important international political implications , much like a Paradox videogame , like in HOI 4 if you cannot import rubber you cannot supply tires for youi troops boom you are beaten in war . Prussian won the FrancoPrussian war with railroads i . e . mobilizing faster . In short , economic policy is a national security question and not just from a war viewpoint .