Touché!

[matrixmann]

Here, with the war in Ukraine active soon-to-be for half a year, the world is still waiting for Russia to collapse under the consequences of that decision.
Instead consumer prices exploded around the world, certain goods have become even rarer than before after the slight relief of the global economy from Covid-19, and food supplies and heating have become not safe (the latter - let alone how much it will cost in the end and if you can afford it, if your wallet’s budget is tight).

May it not be that the community of the so-called “Western states” miscalculated in a very high degree in this issue?

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[lautenist.livejournal.com]

The western world miscalculated the obvious.
The idea of functioning sanctions never worked - neither south africa stopped the apartheid, nor did Iran or north korea changed their regime.
And in case of russia it was obvious that our dependancy from fuel and gas would surpass the damage we do by not delivering any goods produced from russian ressources. Actually and as a matter of fact russian economy profits from the sanctions while we suffer inflation and economic downgrowth
stupid politicians! Biden insisted not to defend the ukraine in case it would be attacked just to get bad conscience after russia really did attack and now ruins the western world in a pointless attempt to make it forget this failure

[matrixmann]

Just saying: A logistics specialist would have known right away that sanctions are a futile action that only comes back as an even more sharper boomerang than he sent it out.
'Cause - everyone who has some serious idea about "globalization", they know how interconnected the world is and how much the Western world depends on imports from everywhere and nowhere around the world.
So, cutting such ties off only results in a big backlash for oneself - especially if doing that with a huge country like Russia.
Russia isn't Iraq, Afghanistan or Iran, which is in the range of the affordable damages to oneself (because it's low).

By the way, how much Biden Sr. still might have probable intersections with the business in Ukraine, I still can't put it off my inner tab, if that might be a factor too in this issue now.
I haven't forgotten how his son was involved in that firm which wanted to do fracking in Donbasss (I know that since 2014), and judging by how much cronyism runs family- and blood-related in the US, it's totally thinkable that he might have given some support there in order to acutally acquire that position.
Regarding the stories that are told based on what could be found on the mysterious, but verified laptop of his that he forgot to fetch, if some of that is true, Biden Junior must actually be a human wreck, emotionally. Even the more back then.
And you can make your guess, if emotional wrecks who are junkies are able to administrate a position in a high economic bord...