In the depths of a seemingly unending energy crisis in Europe, predicting the endgame has become near impossible. But the so-called European Paradox might hold the answer — After a series of botched negotiations at the end of a cold winter in 2009, Russia, through its majority state-owned energy firm Gazprom, cut off major gas supplies to Ukraine. Stemming flows completely, after Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz failed to pay numerous debts on previous supplies, Putin detached the whole…