Comment: Putin doesn't want to weaken Europe, he wants to make deals with them and empower them as much as anyone. What he does want to do is cut the strings of their master puppeteer  and liberate them from subservience of their American controllers. This bill is not going over too well in Europe and particularly in Germany where energy pipelines are being built from Russia to provide energy security to Europe and Germans.. The Americans are dreaming if they think they will replace this source  with their expensive energy supplies. Don't be too smug the fallout will come back to America to bite them you know where sooner than you think.