When this conflict started, Bernds were telling me we are going to freeze. Let's look at some facts.
German gas reserves are filled 89,07% and that is INCREASING.
The weather is warmer than average, gas consumption is about 20% lower than average.
(Btw it was 18 degrees on New Year. No freezing to death here.)
Public opinion still supports our course of action. There is no public outcry to be friends with Russia again or anything of the sort.
Russia has fucked itself royally. It will lose this war, fail to achieve any strategic goals, the West will be strenghtened economically and militarily, Russia will be weakened in both regards. Standard of living will become much worse for the average Russian.
Liberal democracy will triumph, cleptocratic despotism will fail.