It's absolutely possible, it would just come with an enormous impact on citizens and the economy.
The result would be exploding prices, shortages and rationing of gas, potentially even power cuts at night or reduced availability of power to industry.
But the EU countries could absolutely do it if they really wanted to.
But this is also a big escalation.
Energy exports are the lifeline of the Russian economy. Canada just banned crude oil imports from Russia yesterday. Without a delay Russia just stopped diplomatic relations with the country and withdrew all diplomats.
It's basically a declaration of war to them, because if it spreads and even countries like China theoretically were forced to join in, they would really collapse.
And if Russia is pushed I to a corner there's no telling what they might do.
The result would be exploding prices, shortages and rationing of gas, potentially even power cuts at night or reduced availability of power to industry.
But the EU countries could absolutely do it if they really wanted to.
But this is also a big escalation.
Energy exports are the lifeline of the Russian economy. Canada just banned crude oil imports from Russia yesterday. Without a delay Russia just stopped diplomatic relations with the country and withdrew all diplomats.
It's basically a declaration of war to them, because if it spreads and even countries like China theoretically were forced to join in, they would really collapse.
And if Russia is pushed I to a corner there's no telling what they might do.