Will western leaders cut and run as the costs of the Ukraine war mount?

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Press quote (The Guardian)
Ian Bond, Elisabetta Cornago, Zach Meyers
03 April 2022
From 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/03/will-western-leaders-cut-and-run-as-the-costs-of-the-ukraine-war-mount

Europe should stop spending up to €800m per day on purchasing Russian gas,” a new paper from the Centre for European Reform argues. “In 2021 … Russia exported more than 49% of its oil and 74% of its gas to Europe.” Halting all such purchases voluntarily, it said, might be the most effective sanction Europe could impose. “The political will to take such a radical step is still absent.” And, sadly, likely to remain so.