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While an embargo on Russian gas would be costly, Europe can afford it.
As the heavy bombardment of Ukrainian cities continue, the Russian invasion could yet prove to be Putin's biggest own goal.
The internal conflicts within America and Europe in recent years - caused mainly by the shambolic regimes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson - were the perfect backdrop to Putin's invasion from a Russian perspective. Indeed, President Biden’s seeming lack of appetite for war in Afghanistan and the subsequent withdrawal of US troops from the region in late 2021, must have signalled to Russia that Western hegemony in geopolitics had reached an historical low point.
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