Gazprom strategy deploys three tactics: co-optation – cultivating partnerships with certain countries, political leaders, and corporations, as levers of its interests; preemption – using upstream power and Russian diplomacy to manipulate downstream conditions and scoop up assets; and disaggregation – dividing the EU through bilateral deals.
俄罗斯天然气工业公司的策略有三种：挑选代理人，即推动与某些国家、政治领导人及公司的合作伙伴关系作为其利益的杠杆；抢先占有，利用上游的权力和俄罗斯的外交操纵上游供应的条件以及占有资产；分化瓦解，通过双边协定来分化欧盟。