Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
It was European choice to disrupt world trade - into which Russia is tightly integrated - and make dependency on their financial system questionable to everyone "to punish Russia".
There were many choices and you've chosen to set entire "global world" you've built in last decades on fire so that Russia gets singed.
The result will be fragmentation of "global financial systems"; being "isolated" from Western financial markets while EU still has to pump their Euros into Russia to get energy just means Russia will dump those Euros to Asia.And whilst you appear to believe the lies that is being fed to you it will not change the fact that Russia will continue to be isolated from the global financial systems and markets and as a consequence Russia's economy will suffer.
So will Russia.Yes, but it will recover.
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Where did you see "cheerful" there? Maybe you should stop.
Russia is its own worst enemy. It self creates problems it doesn't want. Then it tries to solve those problems by aggressive means which usually ends up in the collapse of their state as they know it.
The manner of implementing Western sanctions was purely Western choice; Russia had nothing to do with it.
"We had to set world economy on fire so that we wouldn't have to set world on literal fire with war" isn't great excuse to millions in third world countries that might starve as result.
And in the end that isn't even going to stop Russia in Ukraine.
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The manner of implementing western sanctions were indeed a western choice in what manner to sanction Russia for Russian actions.
That however does not equate to Russia having nothing to do with creating the circumstances which made the western world see fit to sanction Russia to the extent it did. That is something Russia very much carries sole responsibility for, in which Russia deliberately plunged itself into on a massive scale.
Your argument here essentially comes down to "you shouldn't have sanctioned us for our deliberate fascist aggression, just for the sake of the world economy!".
Yeah he's dancing around semantics at this point. He can't even say "Russia is innocent" he's hiding behind "Russia didn't choose the penalties for being found guilty". Which is a bold admission, to be sure. Did you see he called it a war again yesterday? He could go to jail. Russian jail. For fifteen years!