I find it hard to root for Russia just because it is, after all, an invasion. Do we really want to live in a world where it's again accepted that a country may invade its neighbors? In this instance, it's on suspicions it will join a defensive alliance. I don't like the status quo but I don't know if this is the new status quo I want.
A lot of people are talking about how the Western sanctions on Russia will usher in a new "multipolar" world with alternatives to Western financial systems that countries can use to stop themselves from being "victims" of Western sanctions.
Those people have clearly not thought these things through in depth, because aside from all the outstanding conflicts between the members of this supposed future "non-Western"/"anti-Western" coalition that will naturally lead to massive infighting, the vagueness of what even is a "pole" in this context, the essential naivete of the notion that if you just leave "bad actors" alone in their own "poles", they will leave you alone, and the almost necessary return of the concept of a "legitimate conquest" in such a situation ("muh sphere of influence", "muh historical borders", "muh NATO encroachment", "I need resources man", etc.), there's also the fact that Russia, China, India, Iran, etc. can use
their financial systems to push their own sanctions against any country unwise enough to skip out on the "US dollar system" entirely.
And what, honestly, is this "non-Western" financial system (or set of such) going to use to back itself anyway? Unless Russia/China/India/Iran/etc. have lots of gold in their reserves, it doesn't really matter.
Dunno, attacking Ukraine looks pretty insane, warmongering and retarted to me. I still fail to understand what he undid the last 2 decades of economic development and made Russia the world's pariah for at least the next two generations for.
A harebrained bid to uncouple Russia from the world's economy and build a better Juche doesn't cut it. And sounds retarded and insane.
Ukraine has millions of ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers sympathetic to Russia in its southern and eastern parts. At a time when Russian birth rates are low and the Russian population is shrinking due to that and a variety of other factors, this remains crucial.
Ukraine also has lots of natural gas deposits that Russia wants to control, so it can further corner the European energy market.
All that talk of "NATO encroachment" is just bullshit propaganda for pseudo-intellectual retards and shills to spin "muh American empire" bullshit on. The only real "fault" of NATO, in terms of "encroachment', is leaving its doors wide open for former Soviet bloc countries to join of their own volition.
The UN got cucked and
refused to look into the issue saying "it does not have the mandate" to conduct the required investigation.
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The "United Nations". What a worthless organization indeed.
For every Abramovich (who will still have a roof over his head and live well) there will be Russian businesses and workers suddenly left with no way to pay the bills.
And that is, quite honestly, the point. By hurting the Russian economy overall, the Russian people are supposed to be agitated enough to see Putin as the ultimate cause of their woes, and move to either change what he's doing or overthrow him.
Unfortunately, sanctions are only really "ideal" when the countries being sanctioned are both small and has a sufficiently strong currently-running democratic tradition made of people willing to get violently agitated enough to oust "backsliding" leaders and replace them with new "democratic" leaders. Russia is neither of those things.
