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Russia would be the main casualty of a “gas war”

There would be very few winners from any further escalation of the crisis in Ukraine, but Russia still has more to lose in economic and financial terms than the West. In particular, Western European economies may not be as vulnerable to a trade war that restricted the flow of Russian natural gas as some of the headline numbers might suggest.

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